Beaumont, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Glencoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67012. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.
On record in Beaumont
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 3 records
Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tanklisted 1993- Beaumont Hotellisted 2012
- Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Retention Pondlisted 2011
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Eldorado quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Beaumont between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2,342 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Butler County | 127 |
| 5 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Butler County | 89 |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 9 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 45 |
| 31 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Butler County | 58 |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Butler County | 9 |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Butler County | 11 |
| 17 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaumont in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1993 | Hail | Beaumont | $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Beaumont | $60,000 | Farmstead damaged. Details courtesy of Jim Schmidt, Butler County Emergency Manager, and Andover Journal-Advocate. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaumont | $10,000 | Unspecified roof damage. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Beaumont | - | Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.90 inches. |
| June 2019 | Heavy Rain | Beaumont | - | This is a 24 hour total. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaumont | - | The estimated gusts occurred between Beaumont and Leon. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Beaumont | - | The hail was covering the road at US Highway 400 and Flint Hills road. The hail made the roadway very slick. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Beaumont | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Beaumont | - | Observer in Beaumont measured 2.30 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Beaumont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Beaumont | - | 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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Beaumont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4877533 | The 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 474851. 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.





