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Sherdahl, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66966. The Survey maps it on the Scandia quadrangle.

Sherdahl within Republic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sherdahl between 2015 and 2017, burning about 53 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresRepublic County1700014
16 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresKansas Forest Service1500015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Republic 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
Scandia4.5 miles13
Republic4.7 miles13
Rydal5.9 miles13
Courtland6.9 miles13
White Rock6.9 miles13
Belleville9.6 miles13
Harbine10.1 miles13
Kackley11.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484616. 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.