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Rocky Ford, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kansas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74364. The Survey maps it on the Leach quadrangle. 283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Rocky Ford within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky Ford grew from 61 to 283 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
201061
2020283+222 (+364%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,730 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 60 were 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/undetermined102
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning30
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30476
3 August 2010Debris and open burning12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30355
25 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30415
11 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30363
11 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresCherokee Nation TribeANDERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Leach2.1 miles19
Oaks3.1 miles18
Twin Oaks3.8 miles18
Kansas6.3 miles18
Flint Creek9.0 miles19
Bull Hollow9.5 miles19
Cloud Creek9.8 miles19
Kenwood10.4 miles19

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 Rocky FordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313252The 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 1853478. 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.