Angola, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Canada Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67337. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valeda quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1946 USGS Mound Valley quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Mound Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Valeda quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Angola between 2015 and 2018, burning about 38 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Labette County | 29 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 21 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 35 |
| 17 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 34 |
| 15 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 10 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 4 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Labette County | 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angola in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2002: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Hail | Angola | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Angola | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Angola | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Angola | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angola | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angola | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Angola | - | 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.
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 Angola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4763731 | 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 469166. 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.











