BlockRishel, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lyon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67449. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
61 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Rishel between 2001 and 2020, burning about 754 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 14 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015096 |
| 26 July 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 26 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 30 June 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018087 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018086 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018085 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122545861 | 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 484801. 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.