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Kickapoo, Kansas

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kickapoo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66048. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle.

Kickapoo within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 46 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

41 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Kickapoo between 2015 and 2018, burning about 99 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
19 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County119
15 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County93
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresLeavenworth County81
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service71
12 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County70
8 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service36
8 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
7 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County42

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kickapoo: 11 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Benner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iatan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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
Lowemont4.7 miles26
Leavenworth6.6 miles49
Millwood7.8 miles26
Easton8.5 miles23
Bain City8.7 miles49
Xavier9.0 miles49
Wadsworth9.1 miles49
Richardson9.9 miles49

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.

Wikipedia article on KickapooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16893431The 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 478280. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.