BlockRoper, Kansas
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Clifton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66714. It stands on Woodruff Branch. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 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.
- 1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1938 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Roper between 2009 and 2018, burning about 414 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wilson County | 2017029 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015040 |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Kansas Counties | WILSON |
| 25 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015020 |
| 25 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 11 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015015 |
| 10 December 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018028 |
| 13 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015057 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| Buffalo | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Rest | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Benedict Junction | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| Guilford | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Middletown | 6.7 miles | 24 | |
| Vilas | 7.8 miles | 21 | |
| South Ridge (historical) | 8.2 miles | 21 |
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 Roper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17299966 | 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 474923. 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.