Shipton, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elm Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67401. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Shipton within Saline 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.

1892 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1942 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shipton between 2015 and 2017, burning about 196 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	5
Other causes	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
17 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1892
28 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	41
14 March 2017	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Saline County	28
9 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Saline County	10
19 February 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Saline County	12
19 February 2015	Other causes	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	412
27 January 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	227

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shipton in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Trenton	2.6 miles	16
Marydel	3.0 miles	16
Hedville	5.5 miles	17
Salina	6.3 miles	16
Bavaria	8.9 miles	17
New Cambria	9.7 miles	16
Glendale	10.3 miles	16
Phillips Village (historical)	10.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484787. 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.

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.