BlockAmerica City, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Red Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66540. The Survey maps it on the Havensville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Havensville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of America City between 2000 and 2020, burning about 589 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 61018 |
| 17 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Horton Agency | WILD |
| 9 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 30918 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nemaha County | 30417 |
| 25 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Horton Agency | BONE HEAD |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 20 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 344 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122552333 | 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 484963. 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.