BlockRosaco, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66901. The Survey maps it on the Concordia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rosaco between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,608 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 30 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 19 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 437 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 5 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 136 |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Cloud County | 147 |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122540705 | 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 484630. 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.