BlockCanada, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66861. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Canada between 2015 and 2018, burning about 125 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 82 |
| 29 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Marion County | 49 |
| 2 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 45 |
| 31 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 83 |
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 2 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 18 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Marion County | 22 |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 30 |
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.
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 Canada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5029265 | 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 477365. 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.