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East El Dorado, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in El Dorado City. It lies in ZIP code area 67042. It stands on West Branch Walnut River. The Survey maps it on the El Dorado quadrangle.

East El Dorado within Butler County

On record in East El Dorado

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 5 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

140 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of East El Dorado between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,553 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined77
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County986
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButler County918
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1031
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County779
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1846
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service674

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
El Dorado1.4 miles14
Prospect2.6 miles14
Oil Hill3.0 miles14
Vanora4.7 miles14
Midian6.3 miles14
Pontiac6.3 miles13
Chelsea6.6 miles14
Hopkins7.4 miles13

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 Q122541671The 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 484691. 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.