BlockCarlyle, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Carlyle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66749. It stands on Carlyle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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 Iola quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 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
- 1966 USGS Iola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Carlyle between 2015 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Allen County | 22 |
| 31 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 4 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Allen County | 67 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 26 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 22 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1651026 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Allen County | 12 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlyle in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlyle | - | Small rope tornado touched down briefly in open field. No damage was reported. |
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlyle | - | Three tornadoes combined into one relatively large wedge tornado. There was no known damage produced by this tornado. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Carlyle | - | The same tornado that had achieved F3 intensity in Woodson County, this tornado caused no further damage in extreme northwest Allen 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.
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 Carlyle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5043127 | 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 484351. 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.