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McFarland, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Newbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66501. It stands on Paw Paw Creek. The Survey maps it on the McFarland quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

McFarland within Wabaunsee County

Population over time

2 figures

McFarland grew from 256 to 272 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010256
2020272+16 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

34 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of McFarland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 258 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWabaunsee County52
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service58
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service58
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service55
28 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWabaunsee County43
21 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKansas Forest Service467
17 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service466
2 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee 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 McFarland: 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
Stuewe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Alma3.7 miles16
Paxico4.0 miles16
Newbury4.0 miles16
Allendorph4.5 miles16
Vera7.6 miles16
Wabaunsee8.6 miles17
Hessdale9.8 miles16
Maple Hill11.3 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 McFarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666589The 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 476608. 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.