Shannon, Kansas

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66002. The Survey maps it on the Atchison West quadrangle.

Shannon within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1926 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Sugar Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Atchison West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Shannon between 2015 and 2017, burning about 65 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
Debris and open burning	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 March 2015	Smoking	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	13
19 March 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017017
19 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017018
25 February 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	4
26 October 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	150890
16 January 2015	Other causes	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1
16 January 2015	Other causes	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1
16 January 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison 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
Good Intent	2.8 miles	27
Lancaster	3.2 miles	20
Parnell	4.5 miles	27
Farmington	4.8 miles	20
Monrovia	6.1 miles	20
Hawthorne	6.3 miles	21
Atchison	6.5 miles	32
Cummings	7.1 miles	21

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 Shannon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199099	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 473498. 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.