BlockHewins, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67024. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Vale East 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 Cedar Vale East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hewins between 2014 and 2015, burning about 9,511 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 9,077 acres | Osage Agency | NORTH 400 |
| 15 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 434 acres | Osage Agency | NORTH OKIE |
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hewins in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1993 | Hail | Hewins | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Hewins | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Hewins | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osro | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Layton | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Wauneta | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cedar Vale | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Elgin | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gibbs | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rogers | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Chautauqua | 12.4 miles | 13 |
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 Hewins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5748411 | 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 484429. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.