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.
Population over time
2 figuresLeRoy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 561 | |
| 2020 | 451 | -110 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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 Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 166 |
| 9 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 75 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 106 |
| 20 March 2017 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Coffey County | 156 |
| 16 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 177 |
| 11 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Coffey County | 114 |
| 11 March 2015 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 84 |
| 10 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 115 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aliceville | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Burlington | 9.5 miles | 17 | |
| Gridley | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| New Strawn | 13.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sharpe | 14.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ottumwa | 16.0 miles | 16 | |
| Jacobs Creek Landing | 17.7 miles | 16 | |
| Halls Summit | 18.3 miles | 16 |
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 LeRoy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2901281 | 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 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.








