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Bassett, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Iola City. It lies in ZIP code area 66749. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle. 20 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Bassett within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Bassett grew from 14 to 20 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014
202020+6 (+43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

57 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Bassett between 2015 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County215
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service225
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAllen County22
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service145
18 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County180
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresAllen County14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen 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
Iola1.5 miles18
Gas3.4 miles18
La Harpe5.7 miles18
Carlyle6.3 miles18
Humboldt6.6 miles18
Geneva9.2 miles16
Petrolia11.4 miles20
Leanna12.3 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.

Wikipedia article on BassettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073581The 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 474493. 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.