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Bendena, Kansas

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66008. The Survey maps it on the Bendena quadrangle. 117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Bendena within Doniphan County

On record in Bendena

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bendena grew from 117 to 117 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010117
20201170 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bendena between 2015 and 2020, burning about 48 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
Debris and open burning9
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017036
18 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresDoniphan County2017032
27 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018026
23 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresDoniphan County2017019
18 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017015
13 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018008
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
12 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bendena in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2003: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBendena-no account filed
April 2001HailBendena-no account filed
August 2000HailBendena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Moray1.5 miles23
Brenner3.6 miles27
Severance4.2 miles23
Denton4.8 miles20
Troy5.6 miles23
Fanning6.5 miles23
Sparks8.1 miles23
Leona8.2 miles19

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 BendenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3886973The 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 473280. 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.