BlockQuinby, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garden City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67846. The Survey maps it on the Garden City West quadrangle. It stands 2,864 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Garden quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Garden City West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
94 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Quinby between 2002 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined | 55 |
| Fireworks | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 579 |
| 15 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 610 |
| 9 August 2002 | Natural | 18 acres | Greeley County | not named |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 492 |
| 7 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 484 |
| 7 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 400 |
| 6 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 480 |
| 5 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 397 |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Quinby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7272086 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484924. 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.