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Berlin, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66769. The Survey maps it on the Xenia quadrangle.

Berlin within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

23 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Berlin between 2015 and 2018, burning about 588 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 burning10
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
27 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service192
4 March 2018Debris and open burning240 acresKansas Forest Service57
3 March 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service56
3 March 2018Debris and open burning100 acresKansas Forest Service54
22 March 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service120
22 March 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service116
22 March 2015Smoking10 acresKansas Forest Service118
22 March 2015Smoking5.0 acresKansas Forest Service123

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon 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
Devon4.1 miles20
Redfield5.9 miles19
Harding6.4 miles20
Mapleton6.5 miles14
Uniontown6.6 miles19
Xenia7.0 miles19
Marmaton7.2 miles20
Bronson9.6 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.

Wikipedia article on BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17509488The 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 474538. 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.