BlockFurley, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67147. The Survey maps it on the Whitewater quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1889 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
36 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Furley between 2015 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6968 |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6028 |
| 31 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6617 |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5050 |
| 21 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Sedgwick County | 5139 |
| 13 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 4103 |
| 5 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 3441 |
| 4 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3492 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Furley in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2000: 2 hail. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnydale | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Greenwich | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Kechi | 6.7 miles | 19 | |
| Trails View | 7.3 miles | 19 | |
| Park City | 7.8 miles | 19 | |
| Arthur Heights | 8.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bellaire | 8.5 miles | 19 | |
| Valley Center | 9.0 miles | 19 |
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 Furley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5509572 | The 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 473703. 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.