BlockRitchal, Kansas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Sherlock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67851. The Survey maps it on the Wolf quadrangle. It stands 2,943 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Wolf quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Leoti quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Leoti quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ritchal between 2002 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 | 9 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2002 | Natural | 18 acres | Greeley County | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 387 |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 394 |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 33 |
| 2 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 377 |
| 2 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 29 |
| 1 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 28 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ritchal in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Hail | Ritchal | - | no account filed |
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 Ritchal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14689910 | 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 484570. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.