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Ringer, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66071. The Survey maps it on the Paola West quadrangle.

Ringer within Miami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Ringer between 2015 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1

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
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service236
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service235
12 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMiami County242
8 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMiami County202
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service181
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service179
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service210

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami 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
Henson3.0 miles17
Paola3.0 miles17
Osawatomie3.4 miles15
Block5.7 miles17
O'Brien6.5 miles17
Lento6.6 miles17
Stanton7.8 miles17
Fontana8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479713. 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.