Kanco, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Tribune Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67879. The Survey maps it on the Towner quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1890 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Towner quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kanco in 2018, burning under an acre 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanco in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Kanco | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walkinghood | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Astor | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Unified Government of Greeley County (balance) | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Horace | 13.4 miles | 8 | |
| Tribune | 15.4 miles | 8 | |
| Whitelaw | 19.3 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484920. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







