Black Jack, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66092. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle.

Black Jack within Douglas County

On record in Black Jack

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Black Jack BattlefieldNational Historic Landmark · listed 2004 · 0.7 miles away
Santa Fe Trail-Douglas County Trail Segmentslisted 2002 · 0.8 miles away
Black Jack Battlefield Boundary Increaselisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Edgerton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

66 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Black Jack between 2015 and 2020, burning about 435 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	284
11 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Franklin County	261
10 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	244
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	153
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	51
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	29
24 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Franklin County	174
23 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Franklin County	173

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Baldwin City	3.8 miles	17
Clearfield	4.2 miles	18
Vinland	6.1 miles	17
Sibleyville	9.1 miles	19
Hesper	9.3 miles	21
Pleasant Grove	10.2 miles	18
Worden	11.6 miles	18
Eudora	12.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484893. 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.