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Mansfield, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pierceville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67846. The Survey maps it on the Garden City East quadrangle. It stands 2,799 feet above sea level.

Mansfield within Finney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

40 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 233 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2017Smoking3.0 acresFinney County601
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service463
5 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFinney County475
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service396
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service453
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service456
4 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFinney County469

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Finney County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMansfield-A semi was blown over by the strong winds near sixteen mile road and Highway 50.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMansfield-An industrial building was un-roofed, a power pole was downed and trees were downed.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Mansfield-This brief tornado did not strike anything but did kick up some dust as the condensation funnel made contact with the ground.
July 2012HailMansfield-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Finney 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
Pierceville5.7 miles12
Garden City6.5 miles14
Plymell9.5 miles13
Quinby9.7 miles14
Rodkey12.0 miles10
Holcomb12.6 miles14
Lowe14.2 miles10
Ritchal15.8 miles8

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 MansfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6751611The 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 484576. 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.