BlockSalemsborg, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Smoky View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67456. The Survey maps it on the Smolan quadrangle. It stands 1,328 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1892 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Smolan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Salemsborg between 2015 and 2018, burning about 26 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 34 |
| 17 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 8 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Saline County | 547 |
| 3 March 2018 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015003 |
| 15 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 26 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018005 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smolan | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Falun | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Assaria | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Phillips Village (historical) | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Mentor | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Bridgeport | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Bavaria | 7.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hallville | 8.5 miles | 16 |
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 Salemsborg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7404271 | 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 484798. 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.