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Brenner, Kansas

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66087. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atchison NE quadrangle.

Brenner within Doniphan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Brenner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 48 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 burning9
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017036
18 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresDoniphan County2017032
31 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service13
23 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresDoniphan County2017019
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
12 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service11
11 March 2016Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2016013
29 February 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brenner in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 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 2016HailBrenner-no account filed
June 2009HailBrenner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Bendena3.6 miles27
Moray3.9 miles23
Troy4.2 miles23
Doniphan6.1 miles27
Blair7.2 miles23
Palermo7.4 miles18
Severance7.7 miles23
Fanning7.9 miles23

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 BrennerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17182764The 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 482888. 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.