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Berryton, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Monmouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66409. The Survey maps it on the Wakarusa quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Berryton within Shawnee County

On record in Berryton

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

162 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Berryton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 675 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee County127
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShawnee County938
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17228
15 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1024
4 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service14133
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service948
12 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service916
1 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service13963

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berryton in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 1998Flash FloodBerryton$25,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBerryton-Estimated 18 inch diameter tree split in half. Report via social media.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBerryton-Measured at asos at kfoe.
June 2021HailBerryton-From photo on social media.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBerryton-Measured at Forbes in Topeka.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBerryton-Measured at Topeka Forbes asos (kfoe).
September 2019HailBerryton-Reported was received via WIBW television station.
March 2017HailBerryton-no account filed
May 2014HailBerryton-no account filed
April 2011HailBerryton-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBerryton-no account filed
May 1997HailBerryton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Lindbloom Park3.1 miles16
Pauline3.5 miles18
Terra Heights3.7 miles18
Cullen Village3.8 miles18
Mathews Park4.2 miles18
Wakarusa5.1 miles18
Watson5.2 miles16
Highland Park6.0 miles21

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 BerrytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4894883The 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 479067. 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.