BlockGeneva, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Geneva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66015. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Geneva between 2015 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1851026 |
| 5 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 26 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Anderson County | 1751027 |
| 15 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
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 Geneva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5532962 | 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 478117. 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.