BlockBayard, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66755. The Survey maps it on the Moran quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Moran quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bayard between 2017 and 2020, burning about 134 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 241 |
| 16 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | MF18-26 |
| 12 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1851071 |
| 6 June 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 156 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 25 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1851035 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | MF18-13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Bayard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4874332 | 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 482698. 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.