BlockOtego, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66936. The Survey maps it on the Burr Oak quadrangle. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.
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
- 1968 USGS Burr Oak 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 Otego between 2017 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Jewell County | 9 |
| 19 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Jewell County | 8 |
| 1 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burr Oak | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Esbon | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Mankato | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Wesley Center | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Northbranch | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ionia | 11.3 miles | 13 | |
| Dentonia | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| Montrose | 14.1 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Otego | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199052 | The 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 484588. 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.