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Parkerfield, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Creswell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67005. The Survey maps it on the Silverdale quadrangle. 406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Parkerfield within Cowley County

Population over time

2 figures

Parkerfield fell from 426 to 406 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010426
2020406-20 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

180 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Parkerfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. None 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning63
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1580
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1562
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County1817
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1655
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1625
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresCowley County1507
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1821
3 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCowley County1494

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Parkerfield: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Dowler Quarry & MillStone, DimensionProducer
Haynes Sand & Gravel Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcfarland Sand & Gravel Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cowley 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
Arkansas City2.3 miles15
Pleasant Valley (historical)3.0 miles13
Moxham3.7 miles15
Silverdale5.6 miles13
Tresham7.1 miles14
Cameron7.7 miles13
Vinton9.5 miles13
Rainbow Bend9.8 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.

Wikipedia article on ParkerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3505468The 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 2061831. 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.