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Bisbee, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Janesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66860. The Survey maps it on the Lamont quadrangle.

Bisbee within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

9 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bisbee between 2017 and 2018, burning about 527 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
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
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service112
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKansas Forest Service74
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service102
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service99
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresGreenwood County330TH ST AND S RD
6 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGreenwood County38
6 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresGreenwood County39
26 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresGreenwood County27

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Hilltop3.5 miles16
Lamont5.9 miles16
Madison5.9 miles16
Hamilton6.0 miles14
Virgil7.1 miles15
Burkett8.5 miles16
Thrall11.8 miles16
Utopia12.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484840. 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.