BlockBefore

Birmingham, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66436. The Survey maps it on the Holton quadrangle.

Birmingham within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

57 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Birmingham between 2012 and 2020, burning about 503 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Smoking2

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
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresJackson County313
7 August 2020Other causesunder an acreHorton Agency5 ECHO 20
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service323
12 August 2015Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service53
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service46
5 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service35
24 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service41
23 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County41

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBirmingham$500A 12 inch limb was blown down from a live tree.
September 2023HailBirmingham-Photos from emergency manager of ping pong ball sized hail.
May 2022HailBirmingham-Report from mping.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBirmingham-Tree knocked over a power line near 198th and R4.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBirmingham-A tree knocked down a power line near 198th and R4.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindBirmingham-A personal weather station recorded a wind gust to 59 mph.
April 2025HailBirmingham-no account filed
June 2024HailBirmingham-no account filed
May 2019HailBirmingham-no account filed
March 2017HailBirmingham-no account filed
April 2007HailBirmingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Denison3.1 miles18
Holton4.8 miles18
Mayetta5.3 miles17
Carbon (historical)6.5 miles18
Hoyt11.2 miles20
Circleville11.6 miles17
Whiting13.0 miles18
Netawaka13.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478202. 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.