BlockCharters Corner, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Enterprise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67510. The Survey maps it on the Sterling SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Sterling SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Charters Corner between 2017 and 2018, burning about 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Reno County | 1700051 |
| 3 November 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800083 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Corner | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Abbyville | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Partridge | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Huntsville | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| McVays Corner | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Nickerson | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Plevna | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Whiteside | 9.4 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122588357 | 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 484758. 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.