BlockWingate, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67072. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge NW quadrangle. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.
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
- 1964 USGS Cambridge NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wingate between 2009 and 2018, burning about 717 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 48 |
| 28 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cowley County | 59 |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cowley County | 54 |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Butler County | 14 |
| 30 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 10 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 2 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 acres | Kansas Counties | BUTTS ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Center | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Latham | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Smileyville | 10.1 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomington | 11.4 miles | 14 | |
| Keighley | 13.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bois d' Arc | 14.4 miles | 15 | |
| Beaumont | 15.0 miles | 13 | |
| Leon | 15.1 miles | 15 |
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 Wingate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18395118 | 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 484497. 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.