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Berwet, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67101. The Survey maps it on the Maize quadrangle.

Berwet within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

77 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Berwet between 2015 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County50072
25 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County6037
20 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6343
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service86
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service44772
22 July 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSedgwick County5183
2 July 2020Fireworks3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service42244

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Berwet: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vic's Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sedgwick 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
Maize1.0 miles20
Colwich2.8 miles14
Childs Acres3.4 miles20
Saint Marks5.4 miles14
Coleman5.5 miles20
Westlink Village6.3 miles20
County Acres6.6 miles20
Valley Center6.8 miles19

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 Q122561755The 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 484655. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.