North Ridge, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66783. The Survey maps it on the Vilas quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

North Ridge within Woodson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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.

1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1938 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Vilas quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Ridge (historical) between 2006 and 2016, burning about 298 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	6
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015044
13 April 2006	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Woodson County	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015016
29 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015038
29 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18
16 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	17
16 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015030
16 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015031

Every fire recorded in Woodson 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
Cookville	5.8 miles	17
Rose	6.2 miles	17
Durand	11.8 miles	18
Athens	11.8 miles	17
Yates Center	12.4 miles	18
Piqua	13.3 miles	17
Hasty	14.9 miles	18
Batesville	16.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484253. 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.