BlockFarlinville, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Paris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66014. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mound City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Farlinville between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,837 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 660 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 90 |
| 8 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 83 |
| 21 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 17036 |
| 16 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Linn County | 102 |
| 15 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 480 acres | Linn County | ILIFF |
| 14 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Linn County | LNX-14-131 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mound City | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Critzer | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Boicourt | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Dunlay | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Cadmus | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Goodrich | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasanton | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Centerville | 8.5 miles | 17 |
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 Farlinville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17198993 | 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 477914. 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.