BlockKanopolis Lake Park, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Empire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67464. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Langley quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1892 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Langley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kanopolis Lake Park between 2011 and 2017, burning about 5,810 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | McPherson County | 50 |
| 25 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | McPherson County | 55 |
| 6 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | McPherson County | 33 |
| 10 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,380 acres | Kansas Counties | HORSETHIEF |
| 18 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 13 |
| 10 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 8 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | Ellsworth County | 33 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venango | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Yankee Run | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Langley | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Terra Cotta | 9.1 miles | 18 | |
| Arcola | 9.8 miles | 17 | |
| Carneiro | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Midway | 10.6 miles | 15 | |
| Kanopolis | 12.8 miles | 14 |
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 Q122566357 | 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 2694106. 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.