BlockJacobs, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lyon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67475. The Survey maps it on the Ramona quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Jacobs between 2001 and 2020, burning about 547 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015096 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018086 |
| 25 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 25 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 2 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 5 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484805. 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.