Chelsea, Kansas

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.

• 1888 USGS Eldorado quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS De Graff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea between 1996 and 2020, burning about 13,132 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• De Graff
• East El Dorado
• El Dorado
• Hopkins
• Oil Hill
• Pontiac

Every fire recorded in Butler County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484683. 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.