BlockCato, Kansas
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66711. It stands on Richland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cato quadrangle.
On record in Cato
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Cato District No. 4 Schoollisted 2006
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cato quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Cato between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,253 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 63 |
| 30 March 2015 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 144 |
| 23 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-037 |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 022215A |
| 16 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 600 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 016-061 |
| 14 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-037 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 31115 |
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 Cato | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17182856 | 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 484708. 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.