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Oatville, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67215. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bayneville quadrangle.

Oatville within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

322 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Oatville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined218
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick County52170
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County52163
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51490
25 September 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service56784
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service54103
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56551
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County55210
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County55180

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oatville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nest Robins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walt Keeler Sand Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oatville in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Thunderstorm WindOatville$2,000A privacy fence was blown down and garage windows were blown out near the intersection of 31st Street South and Meridian.

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cessna1.7 miles20
Prospect Park1.7 miles20
Purcell1.9 miles19
Murray Gill2.2 miles20
Glenville2.3 miles19
South Seneca Gardens2.6 miles19
Midland2.9 miles19
Prospect3.2 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122555404The 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 474322. 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.