Venango, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Empire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67464. The Survey maps it on the Venango quadrangle.

Venango within Ellsworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1892 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1942 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Venango quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Venango between 2011 and 2017, burning about 2,410 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
Debris and open burning	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 July 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	McPherson County	50
25 July 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	McPherson County	55
6 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	McPherson County	33
10 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,380 acres	Kansas Counties	HORSETHIEF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellsworth 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
Yankee Run	1.8 miles	14
Kanopolis Lake Park	2.6 miles	16
Langley	6.5 miles	16
Terra Cotta	7.3 miles	18
Carneiro	7.3 miles	14
Arcola	8.2 miles	17
Midway	9.1 miles	15
Kanopolis	10.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476930. 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.