BlockBalta, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Russell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67665. The Survey maps it on the Russell NW quadrangle. It stands 1,877 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Russell quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Russell NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Balta between 2015 and 2018, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15029 |
| 21 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Russell County | 152 |
| 17 August 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Russell County | 24 |
| 18 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Russell County | 23 |
| 14 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 111 |
| 12 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Russell County | 127 |
| 12 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 9 June 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 94 |
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.
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 Q4852584 | 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 484725. 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.