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Agricola, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66871. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle.

Agricola within Coffey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Agricola between 2015 and 2020, burning about 165 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks1
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 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service217
5 April 2017Naturalunder an acreCoffey County194
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service124
26 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service123
22 March 2015Fireworks3.0 acresKansas Forest Service108
21 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresCoffey County166
17 March 2017Debris and open burning30 acresFranklin County18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agricola in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 3 hail, 1 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
August 2016HailAgricola-Delayed report. Report via social media.
September 2008FloodAgricola-Roadways across the county were closed as a result of flooding due to heavy rainfall, including portions of Hwy 58. The cooperative observer near LeRoy reported a storm total 3.78 inches of rain. A citizen in LeRoy estaimted between 3 and 5 inches of rain had fallen. A trained spotter in the east central part of the county reported a storm total 2.50 inches, while a spotter near Burlington reported 2.15 inches.
June 2017HailAgricola-no account filed
May 2009HailAgricola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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
Waverly4.0 miles17
Beto Junction8.4 miles18
Halls Summit9.0 miles16
Sharpe12.6 miles16
New Strawn15.4 miles16
Lebo16.9 miles17
Ottumwa17.1 miles16
Aliceville18.3 miles17

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 AgricolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16250193The 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 477562. 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.