BlockSaint Benedict, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66538. It stands on North Fork Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Benedict quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Benedict
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
St. Mary's Churchlisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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 Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS St Benedict quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Saint Benedict between 2015 and 2016, burning about 232 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 225 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 20 |
| 20 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 10 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 22 February 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 15 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Saint Benedict | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18392635 | 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 472733. 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.