BlockKanbrick, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Homestead Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67544. The Survey maps it on the Great Bend NE 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.
- 1891 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Great Bend NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Kanbrick between 2015 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3115 |
| 8 August 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 3 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Barton County | 2017055 |
| 23 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2698 |
| 1 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 155 acres | Barton County | 2017041 |
| 30 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 16 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Barton County | 2017030 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Hoisington | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hoisington | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Boyd | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Redwing | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Heizer | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Great Bend | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Anchorway | 8.8 miles | 17 | |
| Olmitz | 9.0 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.
| Wikidata item Q122549648 | 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 484922. 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.