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Boicourt, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66075. It stands on North Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boicourt quadrangle.

Boicourt within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

43 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Boicourt between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,300 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service576
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge1700-69
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeGATLIN BALER
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service130
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service171
24 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeTHE HILL
2 April 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge1550/YARDLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boicourt in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007FloodBoicourt$250,000The Marais Des Cygnes River near Trading Post had major flooding, and had its second highest crest of 40.26 feet, or 15.26 feet above flood stage.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBoicourt$15,000Wind damage occurred to trees and a power pole. A tree fell onto a car.
June 2007FloodBoicourt-The Marais Des Cygnes River at Trading Post began flooding on June 29, 2007 and continued through July 8, 2007. The crest was on July 2, 2007 and is detailed in the July 2007 Storm Data Report.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Trading Post2.6 miles15
La Cygne Corner5.6 miles16
La Cygne5.9 miles16
Pleasanton6.4 miles15
Linn Valley7.4 miles15
Farlinville7.5 miles15
Mound City10.1 miles15
Cadmus10.8 miles14

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 BoicourtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122568761The 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 477707. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.