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Sand Creek, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newton City. It lies in ZIP code area 67114. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle.

Sand Creek within Harvey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

96 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Sand Creek between 2015 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Natural1

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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1502539
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2519
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHarvey County1702409
28 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHarvey County1702393
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresHarvey County1701879
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1916
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1921
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1910

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harvey 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
McGraw1.5 miles16
Newton1.6 miles16
North Newton3.0 miles16
Van Arsdale3.8 miles15
Putnam4.5 miles15
Zimmerdale4.9 miles18
McLains6.1 miles14
Halstead7.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484835. 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.