BlockFive Points, Kansas
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in High Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66048. It stands on Murray Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jarbalo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Jarbalo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Jarbalo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Jarbalo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
52 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,400 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 779 |
| 11 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Leavenworth County | 86 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 367 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 364 |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 65 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 293 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 249 |
| 8 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jarbalo | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Hoge | 4.4 miles | 35 | |
| Springdale | 5.3 miles | 23 | |
| Fairmount | 5.7 miles | 35 | |
| East Fairmount | 6.7 miles | 35 | |
| Lansing | 7.1 miles | 35 | |
| Xavier | 7.2 miles | 49 | |
| Richardson | 7.4 miles | 49 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484852. 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.