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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1888 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Lamont quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 112 |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 74 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 102 |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 99 |
| 6 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Greenwood County | 330TH ST AND S RD |
| 6 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Greenwood County | 38 |
| 6 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Greenwood County | 39 |
| 26 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Greenwood County | 27 |
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.
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.





