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Cokedale, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66725. The Survey maps it on the Hallowell quadrangle.

Cokedale within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

49 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Cokedale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 364 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning9
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCherokee County221
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500014
27 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0041
5 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service158
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service168
16 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service18SF038
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0013
7 March 2020Smoking3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Hamilton Camp (historical)1.4 miles20
Mayer (historical)1.8 miles20
Mackie2.3 miles20
East Mineral (historical)2.5 miles20
Monte Carlo (historical)2.5 miles20
Carona2.6 miles20
West Mineral3.0 miles20
Skidmore3.3 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.

Wikipedia article on CokedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986582The 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 484448. 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.