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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Jefferson County | 2017109 |
| 8 June 2003 | Smoking | 20 acres | Jefferson County | not named |
| 7 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015040 |
| 2 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Jefferson County | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015018 |
| 31 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Jefferson County | not named |
| 29 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 59 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015028 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flood | Boyle | - | Flooding over Kansas highway 16. Water estimated to be 6 inches to one foot deep. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Boyle | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Boyle | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunavant | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Winchester | 4.7 miles | 20 | |
| Nortonville | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Valley Falls | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Shore | 7.7 miles | 22 | |
| Oskaloosa | 8.9 miles | 22 | |
| Half Mound | 8.9 miles | 20 | |
| Ozawkie | 9.5 miles | 22 |
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 Boyle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17182749 | 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 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.







