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Laneville, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neosho Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parsons East quadrangle.

Laneville within Labette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Laneville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
13 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLabette County38
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service25
11 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLabette County13
16 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service120
14 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLabette County20
10 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
10 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service2018018
5 February 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLabette County10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette 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
Strauss2.2 miles18
Brownstone3.6 miles18
Montana4.0 miles18
Winway7.0 miles19
Parsons7.1 miles19
Garvin7.2 miles20
Labette7.7 miles20
Orchard Park8.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484484. 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.