Dunavant, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66088. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Dunavant within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Dunavant between 2003 and 2018, burning about 415 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
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Jefferson County	not named
2 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Jefferson County	not named
8 June 2003	Smoking	20 acres	Jefferson County	not named
27 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	122
2 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Jefferson County	not named
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	37
5 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	23
31 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Jefferson County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Boyle	2.8 miles	20
Winchester	3.8 miles	20
Oskaloosa	6.1 miles	22
Lake Shore	6.3 miles	22
Valley Falls	7.3 miles	19
Nortonville	7.9 miles	20
Ozawkie	8.5 miles	22
Indian Ridge	9.5 miles	22

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 Dunavant	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4889632	The 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 484848. 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.