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Mantey, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Stanton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66767. The Survey maps it on the Mantey quadrangle.

Mantey within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mantey between 2006 and 2020, burning about 7,620 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service502
10 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service141
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined92 acresBourbon CountyCOUNTY LINE HEDGE
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLEE ROAD
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,000 acresKansas CountiesOBEE
21 March 2015Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mantey: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mound City Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mantey in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMantey-Downed wires near 400th road south of Mound City.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindMantey-Multiple trees were blown down at 300 Rd and Highway 7 near Mound City.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Prescott5.9 miles15
Mound City6.3 miles15
Critzer8.3 miles14
Pleasanton10.0 miles15
Blue Mound10.9 miles16
Farlinville12.8 miles15
Trading Post15.1 miles15
Boicourt15.8 miles16

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 ManteyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199017The 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 484841. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.