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Lapland, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67045. It stands on Swing Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lapland quadrangle.

Lapland within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lapland between 1996 and 2020, burning about 10,952 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
2 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10,000 acresGreenwood Countynot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined900 acresGreenwood County270TH ROAD
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service43
18 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresLyon County017-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lapland in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003HailLapland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Thrall4.2 miles16
Teterville4.3 miles16
Ivanpah7.6 miles14
Burkett7.8 miles16
Kenbro10.3 miles16
Utopia10.8 miles14
Hamilton12.2 miles14
Eureka12.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474415. 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.