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Chiles, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ten Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66071. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle.

Chiles within Miami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

47 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Chiles between 2006 and 2018, burning about 364 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
11 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service156
30 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service178
29 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service148
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service124
9 May 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1200147

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chiles in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindChiles-Downed tree limbs and wires near Renner Road between Spring Hill and Bucyrus.

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Wagstaff2.1 miles17
Bucyrus4.0 miles17
Hillsdale4.9 miles17
Somerset5.2 miles17
Wea5.6 miles17
Louisburg6.0 miles16
Lento6.2 miles17
Paola9.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479401. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.