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Wego-Waco, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67060. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle.

Wego-Waco within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

113 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Wego-Waco between 2001 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning28
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County6341
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSumner County140
6 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1378
3 August 2017Debris and open burning10 acresSedgwick County5503
28 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSumner Countynot named
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6338
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick 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
Waco1.4 miles19
Haysville3.2 miles19
Sand Burr Hill3.6 miles19
Derby3.8 miles19
Sunset Park3.9 miles19
Midland Park4.7 miles19
Midland Tower5.5 miles19
Mona Kay Heights5.5 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122572256The 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 474327. 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.