Carbon, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66436. The Survey maps it on the Arrington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carbon within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1889 USGS Topeka quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Topeka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Arrington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Carbon (historical) between 2015 and 2018, burning about 59 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
30 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	48
13 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	46
22 March 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	39
20 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Jackson County	26
29 February 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	17
27 February 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	11
26 February 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	20
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Jackson County	13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Denison	6.1 miles	18
Birmingham	6.5 miles	18
Holton	7.4 miles	18
Whiting	7.8 miles	18
Netawaka	10.8 miles	17
Mayetta	11.6 miles	17
Circleville	14.0 miles	17
Hoyt	16.8 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853967. 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.