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B N Junction, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66067. The Survey maps it on the Ottawa South quadrangle.

B N Junction within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

73 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of B N Junction between 2015 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500057
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1192
4 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service180156
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1057
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1052
20 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1009
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Ottawa3.7 miles19
Ottawa Junction5.0 miles18
Princeton5.0 miles17
Imes6.0 miles17
Homewood6.6 miles17
Richter6.6 miles17
Peoria6.7 miles17
Ransomville9.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484899. 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.