Mingona, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mingona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67104. The Survey maps it on the Medicine Lodge SW quadrangle. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.

Mingona within Barber 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.

1891 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Medicine Lodge SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mingona between 2008 and 2017, burning about 7,670 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	420 acres	Barber County	PIKE FIRE
20 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,250 acres	Kansas Counties	LAKE CITY
28 January 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Kansas Counties	HOPKINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barber 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
Forest City	2.1 miles	14
Medicine Lodge	6.5 miles	14
Lake City	7.2 miles	14
Elm Mills	7.6 miles	14
Pixley	10.6 miles	14
Isabel	12.3 miles	14
Sun City	12.5 miles	14
Deerhead	13.1 miles	14

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 Mingona	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14689799	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 484517. 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.