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Winway, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Parsons City. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. The Survey maps it on the Parsons West quadrangle.

Winway within Labette County

On record in Winway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

44 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Winway between 2015 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180043
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service180034
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service318
11 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLabette County18
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLabette County15
9 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service180025
11 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLabette County13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette 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
Parsons1.0 miles19
Orchard Park2.4 miles19
Brownstone3.5 miles18
Fern6.4 miles19
Garvin6.7 miles20
Laneville7.0 miles18
Labette7.7 miles20
Montana7.9 miles18

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 Q122549710The 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 483783. 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.