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Rumley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adamsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76539. It stands on Fall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rumley quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Rumley within Lampasas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rumley between 2006 and 2018, burning about 249 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8827 FM 580
9 August 2018Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service580
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2204 CR 3220
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service651 COUNTY ROAD 3463
4 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9215EFM580
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service190/CRAWFORD
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3220
28 May 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR3270

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lampasas County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rumley in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Rumley$85,000A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of a tornado approximately four miles to the northwest of Kempner. This tornado occurred nearly simultaneously with a tornado near Lampasas. This tornado produced damage to several buildings, including two houses where large sections of roof damage.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Rumley$35,000A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of brief tornado approximately four miles northeast of the city of Lampasas. The tornado damage several trees, and removed a large part of a roof of the only house the tornado impacted.
May 2011HailRumley$20,000Grapefruit sized hail fell near Farm-to-Market Road 1113 and County Road 3295 about 7 miles north of Kempner.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindRumley$15,000Strong winds destroyed a barn.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindRumley$1,000A highway construction sign was blown across the road and a tree was blown down.
May 2011HailRumley$1,000no account filed
July 2025Flash FloodRumley-Emergency management reported that County Road 3100 just west of Brooks Crossing was shut down due to flooding.
April 2018HailRumley-Lampasas County Sheriff's Department reported quarter-sized hail on FM 580 in the city or Rumley, TX.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRumley-Amateur radio reported multiple trees down near the city of Rumley, TX.
May 2011HailRumley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lampasas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brooks Crossing4.0 miles13
Hallmark Crossing6.1 miles13
Shortall6.8 miles13
Kempner7.2 miles13
Sparks Crossing7.9 miles12
Izoro8.4 miles13
Radio Junction8.5 miles12
Lampasas9.6 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RumleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29033967The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380471. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.