BlockGuilford, Kansas
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Guilford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66714. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Altoona quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 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.
- 1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1938 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Guilford between 2009 and 2018, burning about 1,582 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,307 acres | Kansas Counties | 400 AND LANE |
| 26 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015037 |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Kansas Counties | WILSON |
| 25 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015020 |
| 13 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015057 |
| 3 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018001 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484715. 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.