BlockGano, Kansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Terry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67871. The Survey maps it on the Tennis quadrangle. It stands 2,890 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1944 USGS Tennis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Tennis quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Gano between 2016 and 2020, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 360 |
| 29 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 15 December 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 830 |
| 31 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 68 |
| 18 January 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
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.
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 Gano | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5521439 | 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 484566. 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.