BlockBarnesville, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66738. It stands on Moores Branch. The Survey maps it on the Prescott quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Barnesville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 987 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 624 |
| 11 May 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 184 |
| 10 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Linn County | 168 |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Bourbon County | 122 |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
| 10 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Bourbon County | 128 |
| 1 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barnesville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Barnesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17985741 | 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 484842. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.