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Sand Burr Hill, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67216. It stands on Big Slough. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle.

Sand Burr Hill within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

274 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Sand Burr Hill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined176
Debris and open burning51
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks4
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick County52170
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County6453
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1541
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service50175
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County6341
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service54103
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56551
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County55007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sand Burr Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nest Robins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunset Park1.5 miles19
Midland Park1.8 miles19
Mona Kay Heights2.0 miles19
Haysville2.1 miles19
Midland Tower2.3 miles19
South Seneca Gardens2.9 miles19
Oaklawn2.9 miles19
Derby2.9 miles19

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 Q122571531The 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 474336. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.