Dunlay, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Centerville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66072. It stands on Landers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Parker quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dunlay between 2012 and 2020, burning about 761 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 273 |
| 21 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Kansas Counties | 1077 AND DINGUS ROAD |
| 17 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 206 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 505 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1852077 |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 153 |
| 1 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Linn County | 133 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodrich | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Centerville | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Parker | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Farlinville | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| Cadmus | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Critzer | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Blue Mound | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Mound City | 12.6 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484827. 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.







