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Chevron, Kansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67871. The Survey maps it on the Shallow Water quadrangle.

Chevron within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chevron in 2016, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service7
18 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Shallow Water4.2 miles10
Hutchins8.8 miles10
Scott City11.7 miles10
Modoc15.1 miles10
Grigston15.7 miles8
Manning19.5 miles8
Pence25.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484923. 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.