BlockWilmot, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67156. It stands on Richland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilmot quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Burden quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wilmot between 2001 and 2018, burning about 639 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Cowley County | 2210 |
| 28 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cowley County | 66 |
| 6 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 35 |
| 12 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cowley County | 51 |
| 21 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 49 |
| 3 April 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015071 |
| 22 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Cowley County | not named |
| 18 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmot in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | Small hail occurred with the 60 mph winds. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Wilmot | - | 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.
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 Wilmot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199158 | 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 484496. 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.