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Bridgeport, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Smoky View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67416. It stands on Kentucky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Assaria quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Bridgeport within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

24 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 2015 and 2018, burning about 57 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service68
9 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSaline County51
5 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service33
16 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service60
10 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service34
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service53
12 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcPherson County40
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-This was a measured wind gust from a trained spotter with an anemometer.
April 2025HailBridgeport-Hail covered Interstate 135 and made it slippery. The largest hailstones were up to quarter size.
November 2022Heavy RainBridgeport-A Cocorahs observer reported 1.65 inches of rainfall.
May 2019HailBridgeport-Winds of 50 mph were also reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Several semi tractor trailers were blown over on Interstate 135.
April 2016HailBridgeport-The trained spotter reported the hail ranged from dime to quarter-sized.
April 2016HailBridgeport-The ping pong ball-sized hail covered the ground.
April 2016HailBridgeport-The ping pong ball-sized hail covered the ground.
April 2016HailBridgeport-No damage was reported.
May 2012LightningBridgeport-Caused a grass fire at Lapsey and Woodward.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-One-half inch hail occurred with the wind.
September 2008Flash FloodBridgeport-Slow moving thunderstorms produced as much as 6 inches of rain across roughly the southwest quarter of Saline county during the late afternoon and evening hours. Consequently, localized flooding occurred. Water covered the Highway 140 and Reese Road intersection 3 miles east of Brookville, 6 inches of water covered Assaria Road 4 miles west of Assaria, and water covered Link Road just south of Water Well Road 7 miles southeast of Brookville. No known public or private damage occurred.
April 2001HailBridgeport-Hail covered the ground.
April 2016HailBridgeport-no account filed
May 2016HailBridgeport-no account filed
April 2014HailBridgeport-no account filed
June 2011HailBridgeport-no account filed
June 2002HailBridgeport-no account filed
June 2002HailBridgeport-no account filed
June 2001HailBridgeport-no account filed
August 1999HailBridgeport-no account filed
April 1995HailBridgeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Assaria3.7 miles16
Hallville4.2 miles16
Salemsborg6.1 miles16
Mentor7.8 miles16
Falun8.3 miles17
Smolan8.5 miles16
Phillips Village (historical)10.2 miles17
Gypsum11.2 miles17

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 BridgeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4966560The 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 476951. 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.