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Childs Acres, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67205. It stands on Little Slough. The Survey maps it on the Maize quadrangle.

Childs Acres within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

130 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Childs Acres between 2015 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Debris and open burning33
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service49993
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County55187
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County50072
25 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County6037
20 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6343
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service40360
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service37419
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service44772

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Childs Acres: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Globe Construction Co. Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miles Sand Inc. Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oatville Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ritchie Sand and Dredge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vic's Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sedgwick 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
Maize2.5 miles20
Berwet3.4 miles20
Riverview3.8 miles19
Wichita Heights4.6 miles19
Valley Center5.0 miles19
County Acres5.1 miles20
Westlink Village5.4 miles20
Meadowview5.7 miles20

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 Q122559257The 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 484925. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.