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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.

Beaumont within Butler County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

12 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresButler County127
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresButler County89
19 April 2018Debris and open burning7.0 acresKansas Forest Service14
9 March 2018Arson/incendiarism60 acresKansas Forest Service45
31 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresButler County58
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreButler County9
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreButler County11
17 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailBeaumont$500,000no account filed
May 2003Tornado (F1)Beaumont$60,000Farmstead damaged. Details courtesy of Jim Schmidt, Butler County Emergency Manager, and Andover Journal-Advocate.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBeaumont$10,000Unspecified roof damage.
August 2023Heavy RainBeaumont-Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.90 inches.
June 2019Heavy RainBeaumont-This is a 24 hour total.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBeaumont-The estimated gusts occurred between Beaumont and Leon.
May 2014HailBeaumont-The hail was covering the road at US Highway 400 and Flint Hills road. The hail made the roadway very slick.
April 2014HailBeaumont-The hail covered the ground.
April 2013Heavy RainBeaumont-Observer in Beaumont measured 2.30 inches in the past 24 hours.
July 2021HailBeaumont-no account filed
July 2009HailBeaumont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Keighley5.9 miles14
Latham10.2 miles14
Summit11.4 miles14
Rosalia11.8 miles14
Leon13.4 miles15
Pontiac14.7 miles13
Wingate15.0 miles14
Clay Center15.8 miles14

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 BeaumontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4877533The 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.