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McLouth, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66054. The Survey maps it on the McLouth quadrangle. 859 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

McLouth within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

McLouth fell from 880 to 859 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
2010880
2020859-21 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

51 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of McLouth between 2002 and 2020, burning about 406 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1
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
2 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJefferson County201755
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service4000121
22 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJefferson County4000104
30 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service4000114
11 June 2017Debris and open burning15 acresJefferson County201737
29 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service34
7 April 2018Smoking4.0 acresKansas Forest Service77
5 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service4000055

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Oskaloosa5.7 miles22
Winchester9.3 miles20
Dunavant9.9 miles20
Buck Creek10.8 miles23
Williamstown11.3 miles23
Lakeside Village11.4 miles22
Lake Shore11.9 miles22
Boyle12.6 miles20

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 McLouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2583900The 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 478524. 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.