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Lone Elm, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oketo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66518. The Survey maps it on the Herkimer quadrangle.

Lone Elm within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 2015 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 April 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service77
30 March 2020Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service78
24 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMarshall County101
13 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMarshall County100
3 November 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service96
17 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service74

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Elm in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
March 1995HailLone Elm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Marietta2.7 miles14
Oketo3.0 miles14
Herkimer5.5 miles15
Hermansberg6.2 miles15
Bremen8.1 miles15
Marysville8.1 miles15
Carden9.8 miles14
Upland10.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484613. 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.