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East Mineral, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66773. The Survey maps it on the West Mineral quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

East Mineral within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

50 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of East Mineral (historical) between 2015 and 2020, burning about 370 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning9
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500014
27 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0041
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800029
5 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service158
16 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service18SF038
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0013
7 March 2020Smoking3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Mayer (historical)0.8 miles20
West Mineral1.0 miles20
Hamilton Camp (historical)1.2 miles20
Monte Carlo (historical)1.5 miles20
Stone City (historical)1.8 miles20
Carona1.9 miles20
Cokedale2.5 miles19
Roseland2.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 483278. 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.