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Carona, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66773. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle.

Carona within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

59 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Carona between 2015 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning10
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCherokee County221
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500014
27 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0041
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180107
17 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17072
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service168
16 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service18SF038
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carona in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009FloodCarona-Several areas of Cherokee County continued to experience flooding from the heavy rain which fell during the previous 24 hours. Flooding continued along Cherry Creek, which was running approximately 2.5 feet deep over Bethlehem Road and 70th Road.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Monte Carlo (historical)0.5 miles20
Roseland1.0 miles20
East Mineral (historical)1.9 miles20
Mayer (historical)2.1 miles20
Mackie2.2 miles20
Hamilton Camp (historical)2.2 miles20
Scammon2.3 miles20
Cokedale2.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 482751. 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.