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Boyle, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66088. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Boyle within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

23 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Boyle between 2003 and 2018, burning about 250 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
21 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJefferson County2017109
8 June 2003Smoking20 acresJefferson Countynot named
7 May 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015040
2 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresJefferson Countynot named
7 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015018
31 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresJefferson Countynot named
29 March 2015Arson/incendiarism40 acresKansas Forest Service59
22 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2015028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyle in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
August 2024FloodBoyle-Flooding over Kansas highway 16. Water estimated to be 6 inches to one foot deep.
September 2010HailBoyle-no account filed
September 2002HailBoyle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Dunavant2.8 miles20
Winchester4.7 miles20
Nortonville5.4 miles20
Valley Falls5.7 miles19
Lake Shore7.7 miles22
Oskaloosa8.9 miles22
Half Mound8.9 miles20
Ozawkie9.5 miles22

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 BoyleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17182749The 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 484847. 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.