BlockBefore

Antelope, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66858. It stands on East Branch Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincolnville quadrangle. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Antelope within Marion County

On record in Antelope

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Antelope between 2015 and 2020, burning about 680 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burning50 acresMarion County23
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service180007
8 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMarion County17009
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMarion County38
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service19
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2017Debris and open burning140 acresMarion County17006
3 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antelope in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008HailAntelope-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lincolnville4.0 miles12
Pilsen4.3 miles15
Marion6.5 miles15
Eastshore6.5 miles15
Lost Springs9.0 miles15
Canada9.3 miles15
Oursler10.1 miles14
Ramona12.1 miles17

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 AntelopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4771143The 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 477249. 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.