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Belmont, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67068. The Survey maps it on the Murdock quadrangle.

Belmont within Kingman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Belmont in 2020, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 October 2020Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmont in 4 storm reports in 1999: 3 hail, 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
May 1999Tornado (F0)Belmont-Brief touchdown in open country.
May 1999HailBelmont-no account filed
May 1999HailBelmont-no account filed
May 1999HailBelmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Orsemus3.4 miles19
Adams4.5 miles19
Alameda4.6 miles13
Basil5.4 miles13
Murdock6.8 miles13
Rago6.9 miles15
Georgia7.3 miles14
Cleveland7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474288. 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.