BlockArkalon, Kansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fargo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67901. The Survey maps it on the Liberal NE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Liberal NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Liberal quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Arkalon between 2017 and 2020, burning about 2,508 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Seward County | 394 |
| 5 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Seward County | 322 |
| 14 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Seward County | 114 |
| 28 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,500 acres | Seward County | ARKALON |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484534. 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.