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Ottawa Junction, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ottawa City. It lies in ZIP code area 66067. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ottawa North quadrangle.

Ottawa Junction within Franklin County

On record in Ottawa Junction

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

84 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Ottawa Junction between 2015 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks1
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
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1192
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180164
4 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service180156
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1057
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1052
25 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFranklin County2017195
22 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFranklin County2017191
20 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Ottawa1.3 miles19
B N Junction5.0 miles19
Norwood5.4 miles17
Richter6.0 miles17
Centropolis7.1 miles18
Le Loup7.2 miles17
Imes7.2 miles17
Peoria7.3 miles17

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 Q122565713The 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 484887. 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.