Polk, Kansas

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.

• 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
• 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Arma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Polk between 2015 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arma
• Edison
• Ringo
• Franklin
• Croweburg
• Dunkirk

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Polk in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Crawford County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 480392. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.