BlockMichigan Valley, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Junction Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66528. The Survey maps it on the Vassar quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Vassar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Valley between 2015 and 2020, burning about 703 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 216 |
| 9 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 165 |
| 8 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
| 18 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 93 |
| 6 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2011123 |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Overbrook | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Quenemo | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Lyndon Station | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lyndon | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Swissvale | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Four Corners | 11.0 miles | 16 | |
| Carbondale | 12.8 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.
| Wikipedia article on Michigan Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18012382 | 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 479323. 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.