BlockSaint Marys, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Garden Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67050. The Survey maps it on the Garden Plain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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 Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Garden Plain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
44 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Saint Marys between 2015 and 2019, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 80 |
| 21 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7153 |
| 3 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5892 |
| 25 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6485 |
| 4 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 4692 |
| 4 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 4696 |
| 24 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 57 |
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 5228 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Plain | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marks | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Goddard | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Andale | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Paul | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Colwich | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cheney | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| The Dell | 9.7 miles | 20 |
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 Q49365039 | 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 473993. 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.