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Boyd, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eureka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67544. The Survey maps it on the Hoisington quadrangle.

Boyd within Barton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Boyd between 2015 and 2017, burning about 159 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBarton County2017055
1 July 2017Debris and open burning155 acresBarton County2017041
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBarton County2017023
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBarton County2017016
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBarton County2017013
21 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBarton County2017011
21 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBarton County2017012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyd in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
May 2008HailBoyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Hoisington3.7 miles13
South Hoisington4.0 miles13
Olmitz4.7 miles13
Kanbrick4.9 miles17
Heizer7.0 miles15
Stickney8.3 miles13
Millard8.5 miles13
Susank9.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484736. 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.