BlockWolf, Kansas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Sherlock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67838. The Survey maps it on the Wolf quadrangle. It stands 2,982 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Wolf quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Leoti quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Leoti quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wolf in 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 153 |
| 29 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Finney County | 60 |
| 29 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Finney County | 7 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 2 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.
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 Wolf | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8029770 | 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 484568. 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.