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Fruitland, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67301. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Fruitland within Montgomery County

On record in Fruitland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

91 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMontgomery County1740195
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMontgomery County1730028
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMontgomery County1460
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service1540144
7 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMontgomery County1259
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1086
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Fruitland: 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
Independence Clay PitClayProducer
Independence Limestone Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Independence1.4 miles17
Blake3.5 miles18
Le Hunt5.0 miles17
Bolton6.0 miles18
Jefferson6.9 miles17
Crane6.9 miles17
Liberty7.0 miles17
Sycamore8.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 469401. 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.