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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Westmoreland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4003 |
| 13 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Blaine | $50,000 | A 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $5,000 | Three large diameter power poles were reported down west of Wheaton. |
| August 2024 | Tornado (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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Three inch tree limbs broken and power poles were broken. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Blaine | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Blaine | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Blaine | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Report of 3 foot diameter tree blown down with the top half snapped. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Small hail also observed. Time estimated based on radar. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Blaine | - | Reports of golf ball and tennis ball sized hail that lasted for 20 minutes. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Blaine | - | Dime to quarter size hail reported. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Observer reported 6 to 7 inch diameter tree limbs down on his property. Time was determined by radar. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Loose tin blown around 100 ft. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Blaine | - | Rocks washed over Highway 16 near Wheaton. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Blaine | - | 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.
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 Blaine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17510325 | The 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.







