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Allendorph, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66401. It stands on South Branch Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Allendorph quadrangle.

Allendorph within Wabaunsee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

17 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Allendorph between 2015 and 2020, burning about 163 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWabaunsee County52
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service58
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service55
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKansas Forest Service61
2 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
14 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2015Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service24
21 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Allendorph: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stuewe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wabaunsee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allendorph in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024HailAllendorph-Report from mping.
March 2024HailAllendorph-Report from mping.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAllendorph-Small tree branches were falling. Time estimated by radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAllendorph-Wind gusts estimated.

Every storm recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Alma1.9 miles16
McFarland4.5 miles16
Hessdale6.4 miles16
Paxico7.7 miles16
Volland7.8 miles15
Newbury8.1 miles16
Vera10.6 miles16
Wabaunsee11.3 miles17

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 Q122569175The 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 476747. 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.

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.