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Chicopee, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. It stands on First Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Chicopee within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Chicopee grew from 408 to 422 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010408
2020422+14 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

170 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Chicopee between 2015 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 were 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/undetermined93
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism25
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service730019
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service107
12 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1339
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17073
5 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1095
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1272

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chicopee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicopee in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
February 2012Thunderstorm WindChicopee$100,000Buildings sustained structural damage and numerous trees were downed near 200th and 510th street on the southwest side of Pittsburg.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindChicopee$10,000Emergency management reported damage to roofs, downed trees, and power lines.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChicopee$2,000Law enforcement reported that a tree was downed on power lines near the intersection of East 540th Avenue and South 200th Street.
May 2022FloodChicopee-Second Cow Creek flooded 200th Street.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindChicopee-Numerous limbs up to 4 inches in diameter were reported down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindChicopee-A tree was reported down and blocking a lane of Highway 126.
March 2006HailChicopee-no account filed
May 2006HailChicopee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Kirkwood1.3 miles23
Klondike1.4 miles20
Atlas1.4 miles23
Kramer1.6 miles23
Fleming2.4 miles20
Langdon2.8 miles23
Pittsburg2.8 miles24
Lone Oak3.8 miles24

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 ChicopeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3886352The 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 469728. 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.