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Obeeville, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hutchinson City. It lies in ZIP code area 67501. The Survey maps it on the Hutchinson SE quadrangle.

Obeeville within Reno County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

137 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Obeeville between 2004 and 2018, burning about 3,621 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
25 September 2015Debris and open burning150 acresKansas Forest Service80
23 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreReno County55
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2715
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2959
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2939
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreReno County3036
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreReno County3034
27 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2938

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno 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 Obeeville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Carey Interpace Salt Mine & MillSaltProducer

Every working recorded in Reno 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
Hutchinson4.3 miles15
Punkin Center4.9 miles15
South Hutchinson5.3 miles15
Medora6.3 miles14
Buhler6.8 miles14
Elmer7.5 miles13
Cruppers Corner7.7 miles13
Yoder8.2 miles13

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 Q122566737The 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 477977. 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.