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South Radley, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Radley quadrangle.

South Radley within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

103 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of South Radley between 2015 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2

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
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-081
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1272
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1083
25 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrawford County1346
20 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County82

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Radley: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kunshek Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Radley in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Flash FloodSouth Radley-Morning thunderstorms from an overnight storm complex produced significant rainfall in a short period of time. This heavy rainfall, caused several creeks and dry waterways to fill and flow out of their banks placing several low water crossings in and near town to become flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Radley0.9 miles21
Dunkirk1.3 miles24
Capaldo1.8 miles24
Lone Oak2.6 miles24
Ringo2.6 miles22
Edison3.0 miles24
Frontenac3.9 miles24
Beulah4.2 miles21

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 South RadleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18011838The 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 469724. 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.