Aikins, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in St. Clere Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66422. The Survey maps it on the Emmett quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Emmett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Aikins between 2005 and 2019, burning about 8,090 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1176002 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176003 |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,000 acres | Kansas Forest Service | OAKS |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1175925 |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1175918 |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1852092 |
| 21 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-14 |
| 30 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 2003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aikins in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Hail | Aikins | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Aikins | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Aikins | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Clere | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Emmett | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Laclede | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Onaga | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Havensville | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Belvue | 10.9 miles | 17 | |
| Duluth | 12.2 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marys | 12.2 miles | 16 |
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 Q122542411 | 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 484771. 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.







