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Blodgett, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67122. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont NW quadrangle.

Blodgett within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Blodgett between 2002 and 2018, burning about 7,215 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 March 2018Arson/incendiarism60 acresKansas Forest Service45
31 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresGreenwood Countynot named
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service71
20 March 2016Arson/incendiarism120 acresKansas Forest Service1600056
12 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,500 acresGreenwood CountyLILLIAM RANCH
10 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresButler County22
8 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresKansas CountiesGREENWOOD

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
Piedmont5.2 miles14
Belleview (historical)11.8 miles14
Reece12.0 miles14
Severy12.5 miles19
Landergin (historical)13.0 miles14
Sallyards13.7 miles14
Climax14.3 miles19
Eureka16.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484701. 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.