BlockHesper, Kansas
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Eudora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66025. The Survey maps it on the Eudora quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 21 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 Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Eudora quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
72 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Hesper between 2015 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2160006 |
| 25 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2370133 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 337 |
| 4 July 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 359 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 75 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 88 |
| 15 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 48 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eudora | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Weaver | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Clearfield | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Noria | 6.5 miles | 19 | |
| Sibleyville | 6.5 miles | 19 | |
| Vinland | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Broken Arrow Park | 9.0 miles | 19 | |
| Black Jack | 9.3 miles | 18 |
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 Hesper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14689574 | 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 479160. 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.