BlockEastshore, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66861. The Survey maps it on the Pilsen quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Pilsen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Eastshore between 2015 and 2018, burning about 193 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Marion County | 49 |
| 10 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 35 |
| 6 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 67 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 18 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Marion County | 22 |
| 17 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 13 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 22 |
| 12 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Marion County | 18 |
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.
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 Eastshore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5330911 | 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 484811. 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.