Fall Leaf, Kansas
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Reno Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66052. The Survey maps it on the Eudora quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 21 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Eudora quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
91 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Fall Leaf between 2015 and 2020, burning about 816 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2160006 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 337 |
| 4 July 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 359 |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6590 |
| 14 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 111 |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1250106 |
| 5 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | 4175 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall Leaf in 1 storm report in 1993: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Fall Leaf | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Reno | 5.3 miles | 23 | |
| Lenape | 8.6 miles | 22 | |
| Tonganoxie | 9.4 miles | 23 | |
| Mahon | 9.8 miles | 36 | |
| Coldspur | 10.1 miles | 36 | |
| Little Kaw | 10.9 miles | 36 | |
| South Basehor | 14.0 miles | 35 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479165. 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.
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.







