Zimmerdale, Kansas

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.

• 1889 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Zimmerdale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Zimmerdale quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Zimmerdale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Newton
• North Newton
• Sand Creek
• Hesston
• McGraw
• Putnam

Every fire recorded in Harvey County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477994. 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.