BlockBois d' Arc, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bloomington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67039. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.
On record in Bois d' Arc
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridgelisted 2003 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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 Eldorado quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Gordon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
49 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Bois d' Arc between 2006 and 2019, burning about 749 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1999 |
| 28 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1757 |
| 13 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Butler County | 84 |
| 25 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1457 |
| 24 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Butler County | 77 |
| 22 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1407 |
| 20 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1398 |
| 14 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1342 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomington | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Gordon | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Smileyville | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Salter | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Haverhill | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Augusta | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Douglass | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pickrell Corner | 7.1 miles | 15 |
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 Bois d' Arc | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2908962 | 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 484710. 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.