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Linwood Acres, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67207. The Survey maps it on the Andover quadrangle.

Linwood Acres within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

264 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Linwood Acres between 2008 and 2019, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined162
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks6
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
7 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreButler County1127
6 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSedgwick County51453
6 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreButler County1122
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51529
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County51352
30 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreButler County1219
21 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County54614
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County54164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick 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
Park East1.7 miles19
Springdale1.8 miles19
Greenwich Heights1.9 miles19
Forest Hills2.0 miles19
Bonnie Brae2.4 miles19
Lakeside Acres2.7 miles19
Brookhaven2.7 miles19
Minneha3.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122591481The 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 474229. 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.