Langley, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Langley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67464. The Survey maps it on the Langley quadrangle. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.
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 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Langley between 2012 and 2017, burning about 8,049 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Counties | 2ND AND SIOUX |
| 6 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | McPherson County | 50 |
| 18 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 13 |
| 11 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | McPherson County | 2ND AND SIOUX |
| 10 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 8 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,239 acres | McPherson County | 2017-00000869 |
| 8 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | Ellsworth County | 33 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langley in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2000: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanopolis Lake Park | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Venango | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Yankee Run | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Midway | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Terra Cotta | 13.5 miles | 18 | |
| Carneiro | 13.7 miles | 14 | |
| Arcola | 14.2 miles | 17 | |
| Frantz (historical) | 14.6 miles | 15 |
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 Langley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199009 | 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 477049. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






