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Fleming, Kansas

20 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 Cherokee quadrangle.

Fleming within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

122 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Fleming between 2015 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service107
12 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1339
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17073
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180107
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1196
18 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresCherokee County170036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fleming: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Weir Pit & PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fleming in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2023Heavy RainFleming-The CoCoRAHS station KS-CR-7 about 5 miles southwest of Pittsburg reported 3.36 inches of rain in 24 hours.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFleming-Winds were estimated by the Emergency Manager along the Cherokee and Crawford County line. Quarter sized hail was also reported.

Every storm 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
Klondike1.2 miles20
Cherokee2.1 miles20
Chicopee2.4 miles24
Filler2.4 miles21
Kramer2.9 miles23
Atlas3.2 miles23
Kirkwood3.2 miles23
Langdon4.2 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.

Wikipedia article on FlemingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150845The 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 484467. 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.

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.