Redwing, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cheyenne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67544. The Survey maps it on the Redwing quadrangle. It stands 1,811 feet above sea level.

Redwing within Barton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1896 USGS Russell quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Redwing quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Redwing between 2015 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
16 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Barton County	2017030
8 March 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15004
23 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15008
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Barton County	17008
13 February 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	290
2 December 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19259
1 December 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16042
19 January 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	18003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Odin	4.2 miles	13
South Hoisington	6.0 miles	13
Hoisington	6.0 miles	13
Kanbrick	6.9 miles	17
Claflin	6.9 miles	13
Beaver	8.2 miles	13
Hitschmann	8.3 miles	13
Farhman	9.6 miles	13

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 Redwing	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7306461	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 475519. 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.