Blue Hill, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hayes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67452. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hill quadrangle. It stands 1,673 feet above sea level.

Blue Hill within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1894 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Blue Hill quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blue Hill between 2016 and 2017, burning about 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
3 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mitchell County	1
13 November 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell 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
Hunter	5.3 miles	12
Victor	5.9 miles	12
Tipton	6.2 miles	12
Glen Elder	13.5 miles	14
Solomon Rapids	14.6 miles	12
Cawker City	14.7 miles	15
Beloit	17.1 miles	13
Gilbert	21.0 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Blue Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48848582	The 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 484598. 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.