Whitman, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Palestine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67013. It stands on Ninnescah River. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Whitman within Sumner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1890 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Whitman between 2001 and 2020, burning about 549 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cowley County	not named
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cowley County	not named
21 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Cowley County	not named
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cowley County	not named
31 August 2008	Natural	5.0 acres	Cowley County	not named
3 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Cowley County	2017138
18 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cowley County	not named
16 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cowley County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whitman: 1 producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Oxford Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Bushnell	2.5 miles	14
Oxford	4.1 miles	14
Dalton	6.3 miles	13
Belle Plaine	6.5 miles	14
Paton	8.0 miles	13
Cicero	8.1 miles	13
Mulvane	10.2 miles	13
Wellington	10.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484502. 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.