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Brainerd, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67154. The Survey maps it on the Potwin quadrangle. It stands 1,385 feet above sea level.

Brainerd within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brainerd between 2015 and 2019, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
15 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service65
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service24
7 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service14
7 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
9 November 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brainerd in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
June 2001HailBrainerd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Whitewater2.9 miles14
Potwin4.1 miles14
Elbing7.2 miles16
Hopkins9.4 miles13
Benton11.2 miles15
Towanda11.7 miles14
Midian12.3 miles14
De Graff12.5 miles14

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 BrainerdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4955872The 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 473721. 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.