Saint Paul, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grand River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67025. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cheney quadrangle.

Saint Paul within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

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
1964 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

48 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 2015 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	27
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick County	239
3 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5892
15 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
1 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	276
27 June 2017	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Sedgwick County	176
27 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	240
24 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	235
22 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	231

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cheney	2.8 miles	14
Garden Plain	3.6 miles	14
Saint Marys	6.7 miles	14
Goddard	9.4 miles	14
Andale	11.0 miles	14
Saint Marks	11.3 miles	14
Anness	12.5 miles	19
Clonmel	12.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484902. 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.