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Zyba, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in London Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67120. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zyba quadrangle.

Zyba within Sumner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Zyba between 2001 and 2020, burning about 179 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSumner County140
17 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service132
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresSumner County128
24 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSumner County125
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6338
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner 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
Peck3.1 miles14
Riverdale4.3 miles14
Belle Plaine6.4 miles14
Cicero7.4 miles13
Mulvane8.2 miles13
Anson8.9 miles19
Millerton8.9 miles19
Wellington11.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484508. 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.