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Yale, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Yale within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

102 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Yale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks3
Smoking1

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
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County1695
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrawford County128
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
20 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County82
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1055

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yale in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022FloodYale-Flooding closed US Highway 160 from heavy rainfall.
March 2015HailYale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Cornell1.5 miles24
Fox Town2.1 miles24
Curranville2.1 miles24
Midway2.5 miles24
Fuller2.9 miles26
Litchfield3.0 miles24
Frontenac3.2 miles24
Franklin4.5 miles24

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 YaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199162The 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 484479. 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.