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Clearfield, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66006. It stands on Wymore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Clearfield within Douglas County

On record in Clearfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

44 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Clearfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County2530128
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2370133
3 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1540126
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service51
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service88
9 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service27
8 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service39
7 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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
Black Jack4.2 miles18
Vinland4.8 miles17
Hesper5.1 miles21
Baldwin City6.1 miles17
Sibleyville6.7 miles19
Eudora8.1 miles21
Weaver9.5 miles21
Pleasant Grove9.6 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on ClearfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130839The 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 484894. 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.