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Critzer, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Mound City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66056. It stands on North Fork Little Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mound City NW quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Critzer within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

18 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Critzer between 2010 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2020Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service522
14 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLEE ROAD
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresLinn CountyW 900 AND JENNISON
21 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County17036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn 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
Mound City5.3 miles15
Blue Mound6.0 miles16
Farlinville7.2 miles15
Centerville7.7 miles17
Mantey8.3 miles15
Dunlay9.3 miles14
Goodrich10.8 miles14
Pleasanton11.0 miles15

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 CritzerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5186942The 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 484831. 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.