Neva, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Diamond Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66850. It stands on Diamond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Strong City quadrangle.

Neva within Chase 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.

1898 USGS Cottonwood Falls quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Neva between 2011 and 2018, burning about 3,349 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
2 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Kansas Forest Service	47
21 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	CEMETARY
21 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Butler County	640
21 April 2015	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kansas Forest Service	30
16 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	ROCK WALL
14 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	121 acres	Chase County	2 SECTION
14 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2,066 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	15 TWO SECTION EAST TRAPS
10 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	936 acres	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge	CRUSHER HILL 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Neva: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chase County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Chase County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neva in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2003	Hail	Neva	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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
Elmdale	2.3 miles	13
Rockland	2.6 miles	14
Strong City	4.2 miles	14
Cottonwood Falls	4.3 miles	12
Hymer	7.2 miles	14
Gladstone	7.5 miles	16
Clements	9.5 miles	13
Bazaar	9.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484814. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.