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Westlink Village, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67212. The Survey maps it on the Wichita West quadrangle.

Westlink Village within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

167 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Westlink Village between 2015 and 2019, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined90
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51490
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service57628
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County55806
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service57132
24 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service53833
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service51913
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service51079
6 August 2017Naturalunder an acreSedgwick County45012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Westlink Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Globe Construction Co. Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vic's Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Rolling Hills0.9 miles20
County Acres1.1 miles20
Meadowview1.5 miles20
The Dell1.6 miles20
Tyler2.0 miles20
Prospect4.4 miles20
Cessna4.6 miles20
Cow Town5.1 miles20

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 Q122566025The 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 474026. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.