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Cow Town, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67203. It stands on Little Arkansas River. The Survey maps it on the Wichita East quadrangle.

Cow Town within Sedgwick County

On record in Cow Town

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 12 of 17 shown

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

Every listing in Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

519 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 519 fires within 5 miles of Cow Town between 2008 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined340
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use34
Smoking21
Fireworks19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County52163
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51490
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service50175
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service49993
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County56310
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service57628
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County55806
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service57132

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cow Town: 3 producers. All of them 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
Oatville Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ritchie Sand and Dredge 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
Wichita1.1 miles20
Meadowview3.7 miles20
County Acres4.0 miles20
Rolling Hills4.8 miles20
Cessna4.8 miles20
Tyler4.9 miles20
Eastborough5.0 miles20
Westlink Village5.1 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 Q122542839The 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 484670. 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.