Hawk, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 67003. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bluff City West quadrangle.

Hawk within Harper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1889 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000, 10 printings
1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Bluff City West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hawk between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
13 August 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
5 June 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	5509
10 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	3151
25 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2684
14 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2298
10 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2142
10 January 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	296

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harper 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Anthony	4.1 miles	16
Bluff City	5.9 miles	19
Freeport	8.6 miles	19
Ruella	11.3 miles	15
Harper	12.3 miles	15
Danville	12.8 miles	19
Crystal Springs	13.3 miles	15
Waldron	13.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 480398. 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.