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Unified Government of Greeley County (balance), Kansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Tribune Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67879. The Survey maps it on the Tribune quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,645 feet above sea level.

Unified Government of Greeley County (balance) within Greeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Unified Government of Greeley County (balance) in 2017, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreeley County39
28 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreeley County29
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreeley County28
18 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGreeley County8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greeley 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
Horace0.9 miles8
Tribune2.9 miles8
Astor5.2 miles8
Whitelaw6.9 miles8
Walkinghood8.9 miles8
Kanco12.6 miles14

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 Unified Government of Greeley County (balance)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110908894The 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 2664358. 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.