BlockBert Wettar, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67574. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Sanford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Larned quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bert Wettar between 2015 and 2020, burning about 60 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1510 |
| 15 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1506 |
| 14 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1505 |
| 29 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1504 |
| 5 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 16 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pawnee County | 1704 |
| 28 December 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1615 |
| 26 January 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1802 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122539035 | 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 484750. 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.