McVays Corner, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67579. The Survey maps it on the Alden quadrangle.

McVays Corner within Reno County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Alden quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of McVays Corner between 2002 and 2018, burning about 386 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
18 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Reno County	1700050
16 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	375 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	SCOTT
5 October 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	HUNTSVILLE
11 October 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	3000036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Kilbourns Corner

Every fire recorded in Reno 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kilbourns Corner	3.9 miles	14
Charters Corner	8.0 miles	14
Huntsville	8.0 miles	15
Nickerson	9.0 miles	14
Adams Corner	11.2 miles	16
Plevna	13.2 miles	13
Abbyville	13.2 miles	13
Yaggy	13.6 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122563361

The 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 484755. 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.