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Le Loup, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66092. It lies near Fowler Hill. The Survey maps it on the Le Loup quadrangle.

Le Loup within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

63 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Le Loup between 2015 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service180050
21 August 2015Arson/incendiarism15 acresKansas Forest Service284
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service293
25 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFranklin County273
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service311
2 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFranklin County246
11 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFranklin County261
10 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service244

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Loup in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLe Loup$25,000Strong winds damaged a 120 foot by 80 foot machine shed, a transformer and some trees. A lean-to was picked up by the wind and carried over an adjacent 25 foot tall building.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLe Loup-Report via social media. Outbuilding flipped and destroyed. Winds estimated at 70-75 MPH.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLe Loup-A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph wind gust.
April 2026HailLe Loup-no account filed
June 2019HailLe Loup-no account filed
April 2018HailLe Loup-no account filed
April 2014HailLe Loup-no account filed
May 2003HailLe Loup-no account filed
May 2003HailLe Loup-no account filed
April 2001HailLe Loup-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLe Loup-no account filed
September 2000HailLe Loup-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Wellsville4.4 miles17
Norwood4.7 miles17
Ottawa Junction7.2 miles18
Peoria7.7 miles17
Ottawa7.9 miles19
Imes8.4 miles17
Centropolis10.2 miles18
Rantoul10.6 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 Le LoupAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6506370The 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 479371. 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.