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Orchard Park, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Parsons City. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. It stands on Tolen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parsons West quadrangle.

Orchard Park within Labette County

On record in Orchard Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

37 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Orchard Park between 2015 and 2018, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service318
11 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLabette County18
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLabette County15
23 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service180423
11 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLabette County13
10 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLabette County134
9 March 2017Smokingunder an acreLabette County90
30 March 2015Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette 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
Parsons1.5 miles19
Winway2.4 miles19
Brownstone4.7 miles18
Fern5.4 miles19
Dennis7.3 miles19
Laneville8.1 miles18
Grove8.5 miles19
Garvin9.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 469771. 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.