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Leroy, Colorado

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fleming census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80728. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle.

Leroy within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Leroy between 2011 and 2018, burning about 3 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/undetermined4
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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSTERLING
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
13 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
16 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
23 April 2018Naturalunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leroy: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leroy in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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 1994HailLeroy-A thunderstorm dumped pea-size hail, two-inches deep, near Leroy (17 miles southeast of Sterling).

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
New Haven5.1 miles6
Saint Petersburg5.5 miles6
Rockland10.3 miles6
Fleming11.3 miles8
Twin Mills11.7 miles9
Galien12.2 miles9
Dailey13.5 miles7
Sterling17.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182813. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.