BlockLansdowne, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Vinita Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67111. The Survey maps it on the Cheney SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1889 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Cheney SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lansdowne between 2016 and 2020, burning about 63 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 | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 239 |
| 15 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Sedgwick County | 81 |
| 5 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 27 |
| 28 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 45 |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 48 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484676. 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.