Smileyville, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67039. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle.

Smileyville within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1888 USGS Eldorado quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Gordon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Smileyville between 2006 and 2018, burning about 442 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
29 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Cowley County	60
25 July 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butler County	92
13 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Butler County	84
24 June 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Butler County	77
29 May 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butler County	1446
16 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	94
4 April 2018	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	744
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	914

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Bloomington	4.0 miles	14
Bois d' Arc	5.8 miles	15
Clay Center	5.8 miles	14
Douglass	7.0 miles	16
Gordon	7.5 miles	15
Wingate	10.1 miles	14
Salter	10.8 miles	16
Pickrell Corner	11.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484709. 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.