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McGraw, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67114. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle.

McGraw within Harvey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

93 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of McGraw between 2015 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Natural1

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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1502539
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2519
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHarvey County1702409
28 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHarvey County1702393
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1916
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1921
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1910
4 July 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1501774

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harvey 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
Sand Creek1.5 miles16
Newton2.7 miles16
Putnam3.1 miles15
Van Arsdale3.2 miles15
North Newton4.3 miles16
McLains5.6 miles14
Zimmerdale6.4 miles18
Sedgwick7.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484836. 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.