BlockCave Springs, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67047. The Survey maps it on the Fall River quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1885 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cave Springs between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,074 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1879 |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Elk County | 17049 |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Elk County | 17045 |
| 4 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1833 |
| 4 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500052 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1860 |
| 2 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500049 |
| 18 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1849 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484956. 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.