BlockBancroft, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wetmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66428. The Survey maps it on the Soldier quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Soldier quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bancroft between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,785 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Nemaha County | 397 |
| 2 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Nemaha County | 396 |
| 15 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nemaha County | 398 |
| 29 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nemaha County | 16 |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 222 |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 72 acres | Nemaha County | 385 |
| 11 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 348 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 333 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bancroft in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2008: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Bancroft | - | Highway 9 was closed between Goff and Wetmore as a result of high water over the roadway. Highway 187 north of Centralia was also closed due to water over the roadway. A tributary of the Black Vermillion River south of Baileyville rose out of it's banks, flooding fields and flowing onto several local roadways. A secondary roadway was covered with flash flood waters. A newspaper reported that the Nemaha River rose quickly and nearly crested over top of the cement weir in place near the former Lake Namaha. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Bancroft | - | This is the last segment of a tornado path that touched down in Pottawatomie County, moved northeast into Jackson County, and then continued northeast into Nemaha County where it lifted. This is segment 3 of 3. After the tornado crossed into Nemaha County, it caused extensive damage to large trees in rural areas. The damage indicators to the large trees were consistent with EF1 windspeeds. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 473448. 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.