Shaw, Kansas

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.

• 1886 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Shaw quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Shaw between 2002 and 2020, burning about 349 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rollin
• Erie
• Urbana

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

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

Every working recorded in Neosho County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaw in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Neosho County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 475115. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.