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Prospect, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Prospect Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67042. The Survey maps it on the El Dorado quadrangle.

Prospect within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

99 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Prospect between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,318 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButler County918
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1031
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County779
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1066
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service919
25 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButler County748

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
East El Dorado2.6 miles14
El Dorado3.9 miles14
Pontiac3.9 miles13
Oil Hill5.6 miles14
Vanora6.0 miles14
Chelsea6.7 miles14
Leon8.1 miles15
Midian8.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474587. 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.