Purcell, 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.

• 1889 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Derby quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Derby quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Derby quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of Purcell between 2015 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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.

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:

• Glenville
• Midland Tower
• South Seneca Gardens
• Haysville
• Midland
• Midland Park

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Purcell: 2 producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Sedgwick 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 474349. 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.