BlockGrafton, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67361. It stands on Bachelor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sedan quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1885 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Grafton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22,823 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 | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chautauqua County | 395 |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 461 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 438 |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Chautauqua County | 376 |
| 4 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 435 |
| 4 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,150 acres | Chautauqua County | 04-04-2 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 454 |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 452 |
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 Grafton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18151878 | 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 484456. 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.