BlockPrairie Center, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in McCamish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66025. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Edgerton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
49 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Center (historical) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 223 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Johnson County | 2530128 |
| 9 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2210055 |
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2160006 |
| 25 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2370133 |
| 8 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Johnson County | 1890064 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1880081 |
| 5 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Johnson County | not named |
| 3 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1540126 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484953. 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.