BlockLexington, Kansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lexington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67831. It stands on Lone Tree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1896 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Protection quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 2000 and 2020, burning about 9,235 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,700 acres | Clark County | not named |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Kansas Counties | HARDEN |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Clark County | 2017029 |
| 27 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Comanche County | 2017010 |
| 20 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,000 acres | Kansas Counties | LEXINGTON |
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.
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 Lexington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18154457 | 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 484537. 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.