BlockMillwood, Kansas
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Easton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66020. It stands on Branch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Mills quadrangle.
On record in Millwood
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Begley Bridgelisted 2003
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 26 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.
- 1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Oak Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Oak Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Oak Mills quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Oak Mills quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,650 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 71 |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 54 |
| 29 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 48 |
| 7 May 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Leavenworth County | 36 |
| 6 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 2 April 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150039 |
| 13 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150044 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easton | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Lowemont | 3.2 miles | 26 | |
| Kickapoo | 7.8 miles | 46 | |
| Springdale | 8.6 miles | 23 | |
| Leavenworth | 11.5 miles | 49 | |
| Five Points | 11.5 miles | 22 | |
| Jarbalo | 12.8 miles | 22 | |
| Bain City | 13.2 miles | 49 |
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 Millwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199028 | 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 484844. 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.