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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Le Loup quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
63 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180050 |
| 21 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 284 |
| 8 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 293 |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Franklin County | 273 |
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 311 |
| 2 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Franklin County | 246 |
| 11 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Franklin County | 261 |
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 244 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Loup | $25,000 | Strong 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Loup | - | Report via social media. Outbuilding flipped and destroyed. Winds estimated at 70-75 MPH. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Loup | - | A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph wind gust. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Le Loup | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellsville | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Norwood | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Ottawa Junction | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Peoria | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Ottawa | 7.9 miles | 19 | |
| Imes | 8.4 miles | 17 | |
| Centropolis | 10.2 miles | 18 | |
| Rantoul | 10.6 miles | 17 |
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 Loup | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6506370 | The 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.







