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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.

Dunlay 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 2012

Regional 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9

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
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County273
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresKansas Counties1077 AND DINGUS ROAD
17 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County206
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service505
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service1852077
16 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service153
1 April 2017Debris and open burning20 acresLinn County133

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
Goodrich1.8 miles14
Centerville2.7 miles17
Parker4.8 miles14
Farlinville7.8 miles15
Cadmus8.0 miles14
Critzer9.3 miles14
Blue Mound11.6 miles16
Mound City12.6 miles15

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.