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Elm Hollow Corner, Kansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Madison Township. The Survey maps it on the Keats quadrangle.

Elm Hollow Corner within Riley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

58 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Elm Hollow Corner between 2003 and 2020, burning about 23,204 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Fireworks5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1570
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1193
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1194
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1178
4 July 2018Fireworks3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1175
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiley County1375
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiley County1333
2 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1161

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley 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
Keats2.4 miles25
Eureka Lake4.7 miles25
Ogden5.4 miles25
Sunset Park6.2 miles27
Rocky Ford7.3 miles27
Manhattan7.5 miles27
Bluemont Hill8.1 miles27
Fairmont8.7 miles27

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 Q122570323The 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 484776. 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.