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Beckerville, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neuchatel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66415. The Survey maps it on the Duluth quadrangle.

Beckerville within Nemaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Beckerville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-39
11 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresNemaha County41117
11 April 2017Arson/incendiarism80 acresNemaha County10
9 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service30918
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1
4 March 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNemaha County30417
27 February 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service22716
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNemaha County4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha 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
Neuchatel3.5 miles14
America City7.4 miles14
Corning7.8 miles14
Centralia8.2 miles14
Kelly12.3 miles14
Goff12.8 miles17
Bancroft14.0 miles17
Ontario15.2 miles17

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 Q122544064The 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 484640. 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.