Ellinor, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Toledo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66845. It stands on Peyton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saffordville quadrangle.

Ellinor within Chase County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1888 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saffordville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Saffordville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ellinor between 2011 and 2018, burning about 11,537 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
6 April 2011	Debris and open burning	5,000 acres	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge	V ROAD
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Kansas Forest Service	24
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Kansas Forest Service	25
19 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Chase County	190 AND YY RD
15 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2,095 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	FOX CREEK
10 April 2015	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	27
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	22
9 March 2015	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellinor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Biggs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Chase County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellinor in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2003	Hail	Ellinor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saffordville	1.9 miles	19
Toledo	3.6 miles	18
Gladstone	4.9 miles	16
Strong City	5.8 miles	14
Cottonwood Falls	6.3 miles	12
Neva	10.0 miles	14
Bazaar	10.1 miles	12
Elmdale	11.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484815. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.