Rockland, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Diamond Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66869. It stands on Gannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hymer quadrangle.

Rockland within Chase 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.

1898 USGS Cottonwood Falls quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hymer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Hymer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rockland between 2011 and 2018, burning about 1,053 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
2 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Kansas Forest Service	47
21 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	CEMETARY
21 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Butler County	640
16 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	ROCK WALL
10 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	936 acres	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge	CRUSHER HILL 2
31 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	CRUSHER HILL 1
7 December 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kansas Forest Service	160086

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rockland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chase County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Chase 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
Neva	2.6 miles	14
Elmdale	3.8 miles	13
Hymer	4.6 miles	14
Strong City	6.1 miles	14
Cottonwood Falls	6.6 miles	12
Gladstone	9.9 miles	16
Clements	10.3 miles	13
Ellinor	11.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484812. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.