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Hawthorne, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66016. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Potter quadrangle.

Hawthorne within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hawthorne between 2015 and 2020, burning about 162 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
5 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresDoniphan County2017017
19 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017018
12 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service6
25 February 2015Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service4
21 February 2017Debris and open burning79 acresJefferson County2017029
28 January 2015Other causes10 acresKansas Forest Service2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison 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
Cummings2.0 miles21
Parnell2.1 miles27
Saint Pats4.9 miles26
Potter5.2 miles21
Farmington5.8 miles20
Shannon6.3 miles27
Dalbey7.4 miles26
Monrovia7.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484843. 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.