Berwick, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Berwick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66534. The Survey maps it on the Sabetha quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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 Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Sabetha quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Berwick between 2001 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 58 acres | Horton Agency | SAC |
| 6 March 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 02015-4 |
| 5 March 2018 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18012 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18011 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-11 |
| 19 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-10 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15009 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwick in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Berwick | - | A couple of county roads are closed due to flood waters. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwick | - | Broken windows from wind driven hail estimated gusts around 60 mph. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwick | - | Several trees down. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwick | - | Trees blown down across roads. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwick | - | Wind shifted a loaded 6 foot by 10 foot trailer off its support blocks. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Berwick | - | One inch of water flowed over 184th road 2 miles west of Sabetha. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Berwick | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Berwick | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Berwick | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Berwick | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Berwick | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Berwick | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 472760. 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.








