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Aikman, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sycamore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66842. The Survey maps it on the Rosalia NW quadrangle.

Aikman within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Aikman between 2015 and 2019, burning about 57 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning1

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
21 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service43
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service41
14 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresButler County184
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service26
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service25
19 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service21
7 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
3 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Cassoday4.0 miles14
Chelsea7.7 miles14
De Graff9.7 miles14
Pontiac12.0 miles13
Rosalia12.5 miles14
Summit13.2 miles14
Prospect13.9 miles14
East El Dorado14.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484684. 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.