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Sunnydale, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67147. The Survey maps it on the Valley Center quadrangle.

Sunnydale within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

74 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Sunnydale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresHarvey County1702503
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County6771
13 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6968
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6028
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service5223
3 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSedgwick County4634
26 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County5290
21 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSedgwick County5139

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnydale 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSunnydale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Trails View3.1 miles19
Valley Center4.6 miles19
Furley4.7 miles14
Park City4.8 miles19
Kechi5.1 miles19
Wichita Heights6.3 miles19
Riverview6.9 miles19
Arthur Heights7.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 473857. 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.