Taussig, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67024. It stands on South Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Vale West quadrangle.

Taussig within Cowley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1889 USGS Burden quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cedar Vale West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Taussig between 2017 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
6 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
16 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chautauqua County	3162017
31 December 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	254
28 January 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2

Every fire recorded in Cowley 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
Hooser	3.9 miles	13
Dexter	9.1 miles	13
Maple City	11.0 miles	13
Eschs (historical)	11.7 miles	14
Vinton	13.5 miles	13
Eaton	13.6 miles	14
Cameron	15.1 miles	13
Cambridge	15.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484430. 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.