BlockAkron, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67156. It lies near Turkey Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Akron quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1890 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Akron quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
69 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Akron between 2001 and 2020, burning about 892 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cowley County | not named |
| 12 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Cowley County | not named |
| 3 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Cowley County | 2017138 |
| 28 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Cowley County | not named |
| 16 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cowley County | not named |
| 13 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Cowley County | not named |
| 5 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Cowley County | not named |
| 4 July 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Cowley County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Akron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17182497 | 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 484500. 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.