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Le Hunt, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sycamore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67301. It stands on Sycamore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Table Mound quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Le Hunt within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

84 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Le Hunt between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,147 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMontgomery County1460
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMontgomery County1259
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1086
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1394
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1569
23 July 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1840166

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Le Hunt: 2 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
Independence Clay PitClayProducer
Scott Rock Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Crane2.5 miles17
Independence3.9 miles17
Sycamore4.4 miles18
Fruitland5.0 miles17
Blake7.0 miles18
Bolton8.3 miles18
Elk City8.6 miles16
Corbin (historical)10.5 miles17

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 Le HuntAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30623270The 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 484489. 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.