BlockLyndon Station, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Valley Brook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66451. The Survey maps it on the Lyndon NW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lyndon NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
63 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Lyndon Station between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,585 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 205 |
| 21 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 53 |
| 1 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 145 |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 94 |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Osage County | 170105 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 93 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 142 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyndon | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Vassar | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Peterton | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Osage City | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Michigan Valley | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Quenemo | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Melvern | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Four Corners | 9.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484886. 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.