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.
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
- North Gypsum Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridgelisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresRoxbury 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 70 | -34 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Roxbury quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 29895 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 19093 |
| 2 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 5727 |
| 11 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 529 |
| 2 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8985 |
| 29 October 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8392 |
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Hail | Roxbury | $50,000 | Sixty mph winds were also reported. The wind driven hail produced damage to vinyl siding of houses. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | $30,000 | Roof damage occurred and a shed was destroyed at a farm. Trees were also uprooted and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Roxbury | $10,000 | Severe 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | $10,000 | A 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | $5,000 | Quarter size hail was also reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Roxbury | $5,000 | Five windows were broken out of a home on the west side from the large hail. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Roxbury | $100 | Multiple county roads had water over them near Roxbury. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Roxbury | $100 | A picture was submitted to social media of some lowland and field flooding south of Roxbury. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | An individual estimated wind speeds of 50 to 60 mph. Several tree limbs of unknown size were downed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to be around 50 to 60 mph. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Roxbury | - | This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.87 inches Cocorahs station KS-MP-36 Galva 9.5 N. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Roxbury | - | A cocorahs observer reported 3.83 inches. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Roxbury | - | The report was received via social media. |
| August 2013 | Flood | Roxbury | - | Minor street flooding was reported in McPherson and several areas across the northern part of the county. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | Pea sized hail also occured with the winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | Several tree limbs were downed across the town. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | Downed limbs. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | no account filed |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Roxbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7372405 | 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 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.






