Berkeley Hills, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Emporia City. It lies in ZIP code area 66801. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emporia quadrangle.

Berkeley Hills within Lyon County

On record in Berkeley Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Walt Mason Houselisted 1992 · 0.4 miles away
Anderson Carnegie Memorial Librarylisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
Warren Wesley Finney Houselisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away
Keebler-Stone Houselisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
Granada Theaterlisted 1985 · 0.9 miles away
W.T. and Olivia McCarty Houselisted 2025 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1888 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Berkeley Hills between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,272 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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	43
Debris and open burning	29
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2634
13 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lyon County	2562
5 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2312
5 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2161
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2300
23 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2304
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lyon County	1890
8 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2030

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Emporia	1.1 miles	18
Emporia Junction	1.9 miles	18
Merrick	3.0 miles	18
Lang	6.4 miles	17
Americus	7.2 miles	15
Plymouth	7.5 miles	18
Olpe	10.8 miles	16
Neosho Rapids	11.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 483118. 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.