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Beulah, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66743. The Survey maps it on the Radley quadrangle.

Beulah within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

35 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 2015 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service183
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
24 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County62427
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service73
30 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service28
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service71
16 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service018-052
9 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County30916

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beulah: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kunshek Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2020HailBeulah$30,000Hail to the size of ping pong balls was reported. Several vehicles suffered minor hail damage from the hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Wind gusts to 60 mph occurred south of Beulah near Highway 7 and Highway 126.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Law enforcement officers estimated winds at 60 mph.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Tree damage was observed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011HailBeulah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Filler4.0 miles21
South Radley4.2 miles21
Lone Oak4.6 miles24
Radley4.7 miles21
Girard4.9 miles22
Dunkirk5.5 miles24
Fleming5.5 miles20
Capaldo5.7 miles24

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 BeulahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4899246The 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 469727. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.