Wilmington, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Plumb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66413. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Miller quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington between 2007 and 2020, burning about 2,075 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 018-042 |
| 30 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
| 28 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 18 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Riley County | 181 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 102 |
| 17 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 32 |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 165 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 115 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmington in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Wilmington | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harveyville | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Bradford | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Eskridge | 11.2 miles | 16 | |
| Keene | 15.3 miles | 16 | |
| Hessdale | 17.6 miles | 16 | |
| Vera | 23.4 miles | 16 | |
| Maple Hill | 23.8 miles | 16 | |
| Allendorph | 23.8 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Wilmington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18395072 | The 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 484884. 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.







