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West Coffeyville, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Coffeyville City. It lies in ZIP code area 67337. It stands on Sycamore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffeyville West quadrangle.

West Coffeyville within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

94 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of West Coffeyville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning24
Other causes10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service766
22 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service695
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1820166
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1820148
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service546
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1820133
11 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Coffeyville in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flood. 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 2008FloodWest Coffeyville-The two creeks that converge near Buckeye Creek are out of their banks. Several streets in Coffeyville are also covered in water.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Dearing2.7 miles17
Coffeyville2.8 miles17
Avian5.3 miles17
Jefferson7.0 miles17
Tyro8.0 miles17
Liberty9.0 miles17
Blake10.0 miles18
Bolton10.8 miles18

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 Q122568341The 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 469206. 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.