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Arthur Heights, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bel Aire City. It lies in ZIP code area 67220. The Survey maps it on the Valley Center quadrangle.

Arthur Heights within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

206 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Arthur Heights between 2008 and 2019, burning about 69 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined128
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use17
Fireworks11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51529
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County51352
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56360
20 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service7135
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County44797
31 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service6617
29 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreSedgwick County49838
23 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6432

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick 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
Bellaire0.5 miles19
Tolerville1.2 miles19
Kechi2.0 miles19
Greenwich3.4 miles16
Park City3.5 miles19
Wichita Heights3.8 miles19
Minneha4.0 miles19
Riverview4.5 miles19

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 Q122598972The 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 473839. 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.