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Blaine, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66549. The Survey maps it on the Westmoreland quadrangle. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.

Blaine within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blaine in 2017, burning about 61 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 burning2

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
22 February 2017Debris and open burning60 acresPottawatomie County4003
13 January 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresPottawatomie County4001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blaine in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1993HailBlaine$50,000A slow moving supercell thunderstorm moved northwest to southeast across much of Pottawatomie County during the early afternoon. Numerous reports of large hail and winds of 55 to 65 knots were common with the storm. Heavy rainfall also caused minor low land flooding. A large well defined rotating wall cloud produced two small brief tornadoes that will be discussed separately.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBlaine$5,000Three large diameter power poles were reported down west of Wheaton.
August 2024Tornado (EFU)Blaine-Radar data along with social media photos and storm chaser accounts suggest that a small brief tornado occurred in this location. Less a minute and no damage reported.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Three inch tree limbs broken and power poles were broken.
April 2023HailBlaine-Half dollar sized hail reported.
September 2023HailBlaine-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2022HailBlaine-Quarter sized hail reported.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Report of 3 foot diameter tree blown down with the top half snapped.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Small hail also observed. Time estimated based on radar.
April 2020HailBlaine-Reports of golf ball and tennis ball sized hail that lasted for 20 minutes.
April 2017HailBlaine-Dime to quarter size hail reported.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Observer reported 6 to 7 inch diameter tree limbs down on his property. Time was determined by radar.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBlaine-KDOT facility west of Blaine was damaged including: destructiong of an equipment shed, roof blown off of sand shed, and broken windows in sub area shop.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Tree branches larger than 12 inches in diameter were snapped. Power is also out across the town. A barn door was ripped off just north of Blaine.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Loose tin blown around 100 ft. Time estimated from radar.
June 2011Flash FloodBlaine-Rocks washed over Highway 16 near Wheaton.
April 2017HailBlaine-no account filed
April 2014HailBlaine-no account filed
April 2012HailBlaine-no account filed
October 2002HailBlaine-no account filed
March 1998HailBlaine-no account filed
March 1995HailBlaine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Wheaton4.4 miles15
Fostoria6.8 miles20
Westmoreland7.1 miles17
Duluth9.7 miles14
Olsburg12.2 miles20
Onaga12.4 miles15
Flush14.1 miles16
Laclede14.1 miles16

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 BlaineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17510325The 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 473415. 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.