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Bazaar, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bazaar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66845. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood Falls quadrangle.

Bazaar within Chase County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bazaar between 2003 and 2018, burning about 6,594 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service50
7 April 2015Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service26
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,500 acresChase CountyNICKEL CREEK
11 April 2015Debris and open burning50 acresKansas Forest Service28
11 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,000 acresChase Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bazaar in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBazaar$20,000A semi-truck was blown over near mile marker 110 on the Kansas Turnpike, roughly 9 miles northeast of Matfield Green.
April 2026HailBazaar-This report was relayed via social media.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBazaar-A semi truck was flipped over on the Kansas Turnpike. Time is estimated from radar.
November 2022Heavy RainBazaar-A mesont reported 1.89 inches of rainfall.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBazaar-This was an estimated gust.
July 2020Heavy RainBazaar-This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.47 inches.
March 2016HailBazaar-The hail occurred on the Kansas Turnpike at mile marker 107.
May 2016Flash FloodBazaar-Water was completely over highway 177 2 miles south of Bazaar.
May 2015FloodBazaar-Reports of minor street flooding was noted at many low water crossings across the county.
August 2010HailBazaar-Nickel to quarter size hail occurred, along with one inch of rain in 30 minutes.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Bazaar-The tornado moved across open country and caused no damage.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Bazaar-A brief landspout tornado touched down in an open field.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Bazaar-A brief landspout tornado touched down in an open field.
April 2026HailBazaar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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
Gladstone5.4 miles16
Cottonwood Falls6.9 miles12
Matfield Green7.9 miles12
Strong City8.6 miles14
Elmdale9.1 miles13
Neva9.7 miles14
Ellinor10.1 miles19
Clements11.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477396. 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.