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Glenlock, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66032. The Survey maps it on the Garnett West quadrangle.

Glenlock within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Glenlock between 2015 and 2020, burning about 172 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8

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 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnderson County1752066
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service1555017
21 March 2020Debris and open burning8.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAnderson County1755012
18 March 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresAnderson County1752045
17 March 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresAnderson County1752043
15 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service1852056
12 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service1852050

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Central3.4 miles17
Harris5.0 miles17
Garnett5.7 miles17
Mont Ida6.6 miles16
Scipio7.7 miles17
Welda10.0 miles16
Westphalia11.8 miles16
Greeley12.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484826. 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.