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Roxbury, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gypsum Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67476. It stands on South Gypsum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roxbury quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.

Roxbury within McPherson County

On record in Roxbury

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Roxbury fell from 104 to 70 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
2010104
202070-34 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Roxbury between 2015 and 2020, burning about 130 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service29895
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service19093
2 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 February 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service5727
11 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service529
2 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service8985
29 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service8392

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014HailRoxbury$50,000Sixty mph winds were also reported. The wind driven hail produced damage to vinyl siding of houses.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$30,000Roof damage occurred and a shed was destroyed at a farm. Trees were also uprooted and power lines were blown down.
July 2019Flash FloodRoxbury$10,000Severe street flooding and impassible roadways were reported throughout town. There were numerous reports of flooded basements and water over water roadways east of town.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$10,000A trained spotter reported 24 inch diameter trees down at the Roxbury Cemetery. Multiple branches of 16 to 18 inches in diameter blocked Smoky Valley Road. Some minor roof damage was reported as well.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$5,000Quarter size hail was also reported.
May 2014HailRoxbury$5,000Five windows were broken out of a home on the west side from the large hail.
July 2019FloodRoxbury$100Multiple county roads had water over them near Roxbury.
July 2019FloodRoxbury$100A picture was submitted to social media of some lowland and field flooding south of Roxbury.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-An individual estimated wind speeds of 50 to 60 mph. Several tree limbs of unknown size were downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to be around 50 to 60 mph.
May 2021Heavy RainRoxbury-This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.87 inches Cocorahs station KS-MP-36 Galva 9.5 N.
September 2021Heavy RainRoxbury-A cocorahs observer reported 3.83 inches.
May 2019HailRoxbury-The report was received via social media.
August 2013FloodRoxbury-Minor street flooding was reported in McPherson and several areas across the northern part of the county.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-Pea sized hail also occured with the winds.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-Several tree limbs were downed across the town.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-Downed limbs.
May 2019HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2011HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2011HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2011HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2011HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2011HailRoxbury-no account filed
August 2010HailRoxbury-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-no account filed
May 2007HailRoxbury-no account filed
June 2004HailRoxbury-no account filed
September 2004HailRoxbury-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-no account filed
May 2002HailRoxbury-no account filed
September 1998HailRoxbury-no account filed
September 1998HailRoxbury-no account filed
May 1997HailRoxbury-no account filed
May 1997HailRoxbury-no account filed
May 1996HailRoxbury-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson 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
Canton11.4 miles15
New Gottland11.9 miles16
Galva13.0 miles16
Lindsborg13.0 miles17
Johnstown13.6 miles16
Hilton15.0 miles16
Jenkins15.5 miles17
McPherson17.5 miles16

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 RoxburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7372405The 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 477097. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.