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Paton, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valverde Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67119. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Paton within Sumner County

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

20 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Paton between 2015 and 2018, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service15019
8 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service18023
6 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCowley County1098
17 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County1203
9 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service715
3 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service666
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service18018
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County896

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Oxford Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Adamsville3.0 miles13
Oxford4.0 miles14
Dalton6.2 miles13
Geuda Springs7.2 miles13
Whitman8.0 miles14
Ashton9.7 miles13
Bushnell10.1 miles14
Wellington10.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484512. 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.