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Rozel, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67574. The Survey maps it on the Rozel quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,073 feet above sea level.

Rozel within Pawnee County

On record in Rozel

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

Rozel fell from 156 to 102 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
2010156
2020102-54 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rozel between 2015 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Service1510
15 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1506
14 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1505
29 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1504
21 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use60 acresKansas Forest Service1809
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
16 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePawnee County1704
28 December 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1615

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

60 of 83 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rozel in 83 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 59 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 4 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Rozel$110,000The thunderstorm that produced the tornado developed extremely quickly. The tornado did damage to trees and irrigation sprinklers and was rated a high end EF1.
June 2025Heavy RainRozel-A measured 1.88 inches of rain fell.
July 2018Heavy RainRozel-Rainfall of 3.75 inches was measured in less than 2 hours.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRozel-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRozel-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2014HailRozel-The ground was covered by golf ball sized hail.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRozel-Winds were estimated at 70 MPH.
May 2011HailRozel-This report was relayed by law enforcement.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRozel-Wind gusts were estimated to average between 60 and 65 mph.
October 2008Heavy RainRozel-The rain gauge filled up and ran over. Water was flowing over some secondary roads. Rainfall was estimated to be in excess of five inches.
October 2008Heavy RainRozel-Rainfall of 3.75 was observed in 1 1/2 hours.
July 2007FloodRozel-Overnight heavy rain caused some flooding in the Rozel area.
May 2006HailRozel-There was extensive and severe crop damage from the hail.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindRozel-Three pivot irrigation sprinklers were blown over.
March 2004Tornado (F0)Rozel-This tornado is the same one that moved out of Edwards county. It was dissipating at this time. Dust with the tornado remained in the air for about another 10 minutes (along with falling tumble weeds).
March 2004Tornado (F1)Rozel-A few trees were damaged by this cigar shaped tornado.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRozel-Three inch diameter limbs were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRozel-Four inch diameter tree limbs wer blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRozel-Top of light pole broken off.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Rozel-Brief contact with the ground.
June 1998HailRozel-Twenty-five percent of the crops damaged or destroyed.
May 1997HailRozel-Hail 1 to 2 inches deep
September 1995Thunderstorm WindRozel-Six inch diameter tree limbs broken.
May 2023HailRozel-no account filed
September 2018HailRozel-no account filed
May 2014HailRozel-no account filed
May 2014HailRozel-no account filed
May 2013HailRozel-no account filed
May 2013HailRozel-no account filed
August 2013HailRozel-no account filed
August 2013HailRozel-no account filed
August 2013HailRozel-no account filed
August 2013HailRozel-no account filed
August 2013HailRozel-no account filed
April 2009HailRozel-no account filed
April 2008HailRozel-no account filed
July 2008HailRozel-no account filed
May 2008HailRozel-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRozel-no account filed
May 2007HailRozel-no account filed
May 2007HailRozel-no account filed
May 2007HailRozel-no account filed
April 2006HailRozel-no account filed
April 2006HailRozel-no account filed
April 2006HailRozel-no account filed
April 2006HailRozel-no account filed
May 2006HailRozel-no account filed
July 2006HailRozel-no account filed
July 2006HailRozel-no account filed
July 2005HailRozel-no account filed
August 2005HailRozel-no account filed
October 2005HailRozel-no account filed
October 2005HailRozel-no account filed
March 2004HailRozel-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRozel-no account filed
July 2004HailRozel-no account filed
July 2004HailRozel-no account filed
August 2003HailRozel-no account filed
May 2002HailRozel-no account filed
May 2002HailRozel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Bert Wettar1.9 miles15
Sanford4.8 miles15
Burdett6.6 miles15
Frizell10.2 miles15
Garfield11.7 miles15
Vaughn11.8 miles15
Ash Valley12.4 miles15
Hamburg13.3 miles15

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 RozelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q938325The 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 475837. 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.