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Filler, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Radley quadrangle.

Filler within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

47 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Filler between 2015 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180107
5 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service60514
24 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County62427
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service73
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service71
9 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County30916
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Filler: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kunshek Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Fleming2.4 miles20
Cherokee2.7 miles20
Klondike3.6 miles20
Beulah4.0 miles21
Chicopee4.4 miles24
Kramer5.3 miles23
Kirkwood5.5 miles23
Atlas5.5 miles23

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 Q122568874The 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 484476. 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.