Broughton, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clay Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67432. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clay Center SE quadrangle. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Broughton within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Clay Center SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Broughton (historical) between 2015 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
22 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Clay County	3
27 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	4604
1 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
20 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	10
8 March 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1515
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	150004
4 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	4
19 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Clay County	8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clay Center	5.4 miles	14
Ladysmith	7.8 miles	14
Green	7.8 miles	14
Wakefield	7.9 miles	14
Idana	11.4 miles	14
Morganville	12.7 miles	14
Oscar (historical)	14.1 miles	13
Industry	14.4 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 Broughton (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q55606022	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 476188. 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.