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Sullivan, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66427. The Survey maps it on the Vermillion quadrangle.

Sullivan within Marshall 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sullivan between 2015 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2020Recreation and ceremony100 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service9
21 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism40 acresKansas Forest Service6
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism270 acresKansas Forest Service7
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sullivan in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 hail. 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
April 2012HailSullivan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Vliets3.6 miles16
Frankfort4.3 miles14
Lillis5.0 miles15
Vermillion6.1 miles16
Nolan8.0 miles15
Winifred9.8 miles14
Reedsville12.1 miles14
Beattie13.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484627. 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.