BlockTonovay, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bachelor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67045. It lies in Tonovay Draw. The Survey maps it on the Tonovay quadrangle. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Tonovay quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tonovay between 2015 and 2018, burning about 860 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Greenwood County | 98 |
| 2 April 2015 | Natural | 450 acres | Greenwood County | T ROAD |
| 10 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 63 |
| 10 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 4 |
| 10 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utopia | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Neal | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Eureka | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Ford | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hamilton | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| Climax | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Landergin (historical) | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Quincy | 10.0 miles | 17 |
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 Tonovay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q55636017 | The 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 474649. 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.