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LeRoy, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in LeRoy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66857. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

LeRoy within Coffey County

Population over time

2 figures

LeRoy fell from 561 to 451 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
2010561
2020451-110 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of LeRoy between 2015 and 2018, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 April 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service166
9 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service75
21 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service106
20 March 2017Smoking5.0 acresCoffey County156
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service177
11 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCoffey County114
11 March 2015Smoking5.0 acresKansas Forest Service84
10 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Aliceville6.5 miles17
Burlington9.5 miles17
Gridley13.2 miles16
New Strawn13.6 miles16
Sharpe14.0 miles16
Ottumwa16.0 miles16
Jacobs Creek Landing17.7 miles16
Halls Summit18.3 miles16

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 LeRoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901281The 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 478086. 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.