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Arvonia, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Arvonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66523. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebo quadrangle.

Arvonia within Osage County

On record in Arvonia

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Arvonia between 2015 and 2020, burning about 261 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service486
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service190
13 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOsage County170109
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service174
10 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOsage County170107
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresKansas Forest Service128
13 March 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service159

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arvonia in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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 2023Thunderstorm WindArvonia-Estimated wind gust of 65 mph.
October 2023Flash FloodArvonia-Report from county dispatch of water over highway K170, 6 miles south of Osage City.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArvonia-Tree and shed damage.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindArvonia-Power lines were down on K-174 in Osage county.
July 2015Flash FloodArvonia-Water over the road at intersection of Hoch rd and Lake rd.
May 2009HailArvonia-no account filed
July 2008HailArvonia-no account filed
June 2008HailArvonia-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindArvonia-no account filed
May 2002HailArvonia-no account filed
May 2002HailArvonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Ridgeton5.4 miles17
Olivet6.3 miles17
Barclay6.7 miles14
Osage City10.8 miles14
Melvern12.4 miles16
Lyndon13.3 miles16
Peterton13.6 miles14
Lyndon Station14.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477554. 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.