BlockNorthbranch, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66936. The Survey maps it on the Northbranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Mankato quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS North Branch quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Northbranch between 2017 and 2019, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 70 acres | Jewell County | 12 |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 482708. 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.