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Vaughn, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conkling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67575. The Survey maps it on the Rush Center SE quadrangle.

Vaughn within Pawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Vaughn in 2020, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Pawnee 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
Ash Valley4.5 miles15
Sanford11.2 miles15
Bert Wettar11.2 miles15
Rozel11.8 miles15
Frizell12.7 miles15
Larned14.9 miles15
Hamburg16.1 miles15
Burdett16.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484745. 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.