BlockSkellyville, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dresden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67035. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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 Kingman quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Cunningham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Skellyville between 2015 and 2017, burning about 522 acres in total. 1 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 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6296 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 276 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3311 |
| 2 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 360 acres | Kingman County | DRESDEN |
| 4 October 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7307 |
| 29 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8204 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cunningham | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Penalosa | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Calista | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Leo | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Willowdale | 13.5 miles | 13 | |
| Nashville | 16.2 miles | 15 | |
| Kingman | 18.0 miles | 14 | |
| Zenda | 18.4 miles | 15 |
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 Skellyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q24885384 | 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 484662. 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.