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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.

Fall Leaf within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

91 since 2015

Regional 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks1

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2160006
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service337
4 July 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service359
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service6590
14 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service111
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1250106
5 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County4175
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993HailFall Leaf-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leavenworth 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
Linwood4.2 miles23
Reno5.3 miles23
Lenape8.6 miles22
Tonganoxie9.4 miles23
Mahon9.8 miles36
Coldspur10.1 miles36
Little Kaw10.9 miles36
South Basehor14.0 miles35

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.