BlockBush City, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66032. The Survey maps it on the Bush City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Bush City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bush City between 2015 and 2020, burning about 616 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Anderson County | 1757060 |
| 18 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 June 2018 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1852128 |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1852076 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1852100 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bush City in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Bush City | - | Water rescue reported near Bush City. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Bush City | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Bush City | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bush City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Bush City | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477890. 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.