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Keighley, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Glencoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67074. The Survey maps it on the Keighley quadrangle.

Keighley within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

27 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Keighley between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,836 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresButler County130
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresButler County127
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresButler County114
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresButler County112
21 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresButler County110
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresButler County89

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Beaumont5.9 miles13
Leon7.5 miles15
Latham9.4 miles14
Rosalia9.9 miles14
Pickrell Corner10.7 miles15
Pontiac10.7 miles13
Summit11.1 miles14
Prospect12.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484700. 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.