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Oil Hill, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in El Dorado Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67042. The Survey maps it on the El Dorado SW quadrangle.

Oil Hill within Butler 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.

Fires near this place

140 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Oil Hill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 15,333 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County986
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButler County918
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service243
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County779
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1846
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service674

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

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

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008HailOil Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
El Dorado2.0 miles14
East El Dorado3.0 miles14
Midian4.0 miles14
Hopkins4.7 miles13
Vanora5.1 miles14
Prospect5.6 miles14
Towanda6.7 miles14
Chelsea7.4 miles14

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 Q31596014The 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 474576. 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.

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.