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Fox Town, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66756. It lies near Breezy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Arma quadrangle.

Fox Town within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

97 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Fox Town between 2015 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
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
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County82
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreCrawford County017-085
27 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-16
18 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox Town in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFox Town$1,000Several shingles were blown off a house. An empty stock tank was blown 500 feet.

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
Curranville0.9 miles24
Fuller1.7 miles26
Yale2.1 miles24
Croweburg3.1 miles24
Franklin3.1 miles24
Mulberry3.3 miles26
Arma3.4 miles24
Cornell3.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484716. 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.