Hilldale South, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66512. The Survey maps it on the Ozawkie quadrangle.

Hilldale South within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Ozawkie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

118 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Hilldale South between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	35
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
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
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Jefferson County	242
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	213
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Jefferson County	251
19 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Jefferson County	221
18 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	184
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	75
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Hilldale	0.5 miles	22
Lake Ridge	0.7 miles	22
West Shore	1.0 miles	22
Lakeside Village	2.9 miles	22
Indian Ridge	3.0 miles	22
Ozawkie	4.1 miles	22
Meriden	5.0 miles	19
Thompsonville	5.3 miles	24

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.

Wikidata item Q122549833

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 484913. 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.