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Xavier, Kansas

49 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Leavenworth City. It lies in ZIP code area 66048. The Survey maps it on the Leavenworth quadrangle.

Xavier within Leavenworth County

On record in Xavier

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 1 record

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 49 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

83 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Xavier between 2015 and 2018, burning about 236 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service834
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service657
31 July 2017Smokingunder an acreLeavenworth County1604
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service734
28 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County124
21 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service709
9 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service556
19 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1265

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Xavier: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Farley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lansing QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zarah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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
Wadsworth0.5 miles49
Bain City0.5 miles49
Richardson0.9 miles49
Cochrane1.8 miles49
Lansing2.0 miles35
Leavenworth2.4 miles49
Hiatt3.8 miles37
Ettenson4.3 miles37

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 Q122558480The 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 478424. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.