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Klondike, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle.

Klondike within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

164 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 2015 and 2020, burning about 637 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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/undetermined96
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism23
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service730019
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service107
12 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1339
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17073
5 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Klondike: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kunshek Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer
Weir Pit & PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Fleming1.2 miles20
Chicopee1.4 miles24
Kramer1.7 miles23
Atlas2.0 miles23
Kirkwood2.0 miles23
Cherokee3.0 miles20
Langdon3.0 miles23
Filler3.6 miles21

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 KlondikeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154099The 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 484468. 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.