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Upola, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Oak Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67352. The Survey maps it on the Buxton quadrangle.

Upola within Elk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Upola between 1996 and 2020, burning about 13,352 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarism40 acresElk County17072
7 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500076
10 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresElk County17058
9 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreElk County17056
30 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service1864
29 April 2018Debris and open burning240 acresKansas Forest Service1862
18 April 2017Debris and open burning10 acresElk County17051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upola in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2008: 2 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
May 2008HailUpola-no account filed
August 2003HailUpola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elk 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
Busby4.4 miles13
Oak Valley5.1 miles13
Longton5.1 miles13
Cave Springs10.4 miles19
Elk Falls10.6 miles13
Fiat14.0 miles19
Howard14.5 miles13
Moline16.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484494. 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.