Ridgeton, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Olivet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66856. The Survey maps it on the Lebo quadrangle.

Ridgeton within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Lebo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeton between 2006 and 2018, burning about 299 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	486
10 August 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	76
6 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	220
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	50
18 April 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	44
31 March 2015	Smoking	8.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	141
2 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge	FROG CREEK
18 March 2017	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Coffey County	140

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ridgeton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Davies Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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
Olivet	1.3 miles	17
Arvonia	5.4 miles	17
Melvern	7.4 miles	16
Barclay	9.6 miles	14
Lyndon	10.8 miles	16
Osage City	11.9 miles	14
Lyndon Station	12.8 miles	15
Peterton	14.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484822. 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.