Osro, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67024. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Vale East quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Osro within Chautauqua County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000
1889 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cedar Vale East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Osro between 2017 and 2020, burning about 2,501 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	2,400 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
6 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
16 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chautauqua County	3162017
31 December 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	254

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Layton	1.9 miles	14
Hewins	2.3 miles	14
Cedar Vale	4.3 miles	14
Wauneta	4.4 miles	14
Gibbs	7.6 miles	13
Elgin	9.5 miles	14
Rogers	10.0 miles	13
Cloverdale	11.5 miles	13

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 Osro	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14689859	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 484428. 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.