BlockBrownstone, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. The Survey maps it on the Parsons East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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 Parsons quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS McCune quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Mc Cune quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS McCune quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Parsons East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Brownstone between 2015 and 2018, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Labette County | 38 |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180034 |
| 5 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 318 |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 11 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Labette County | 18 |
| 11 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Labette County | 13 |
| 10 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Labette County | 134 |
| 9 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Labette County | 90 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484483. 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.