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Ivanpah, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in South Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67045. The Survey maps it on the Lapland quadrangle.

Ivanpah within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ivanpah between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3,800 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresGreenwood County18-38
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service41
8 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,700 acresGreenwood CountyD165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Sallyards5.5 miles14
Reece7.1 miles14
Belleview (historical)7.2 miles14
Lapland7.6 miles14
Teterville10.5 miles16
Landergin (historical)10.7 miles14
Eureka11.5 miles14
Thrall11.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484685. 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.