Hoge, Kansas

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Stranger Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66086. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.

Hoge within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 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.

1890 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 14 printings
1934 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

84 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Hoge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	32
Debris and open burning	20
Smoking	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	175
12 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	191
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	545
6 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	359
30 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	439
2 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	332
17 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	261
11 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	108

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth 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
Fairmount	3.4 miles	35
Basehor	3.7 miles	35
East Fairmount	4.1 miles	35
South Basehor	4.2 miles	35
Jarbalo	4.4 miles	22
Five Points	4.4 miles	22
Stone	5.1 miles	35
Tonganoxie	6.5 miles	23

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 Hoge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17183731	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 484856. 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.