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Buck Creek, Kansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Rural Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66073. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Buck Creek within Jefferson County

On record in Buck Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

76 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Buck Creek between 2007 and 2020, burning about 468 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1

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
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service181
22 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas County6823
29 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service18051
5 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service201837
18 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County4675
10 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County4380
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJefferson County63
6 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buck Creek in 17 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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 2007Flash FloodBuck Creek$50,000Reported water flowing over Highway 24 east of the junction with highway 59.
April 2026Flash FloodBuck Creek$10,000The intersection of 13th and Wellman road is impassable from water up to a foot in depth.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek$2,000Winds near 80 mph overturned a trailer near Buck Creek.
May 2022Flash FloodBuck Creek-Bridge closed due to flash flood damage.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-Measured at mesonet station up091, 1.9 miles east of Williamstown (upr).
August 2019HailBuck Creek-Half dollar size hail stones.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-A trained spotter in far southern Jefferson County reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010HailBuck Creek-One inch hail was reported near 21st Road and Union Road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-A 12 inch cottonwood tree limb broke off in strong winds associated with a thunderstorm complex near Williamstown. A travel trailer was also knocked off its blocks and turned in the driveway.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-Several reports of damage were relaed by the Emergency Manager. Large trees were reportd down along Hwy 24. The roof was blown off a shed at 13th and Wildhorse.
May 2016HailBuck Creek-no account filed
April 2011HailBuck Creek-no account filed
April 2011HailBuck Creek-no account filed
September 2010HailBuck Creek-no account filed
September 2010HailBuck Creek-no account filed
April 2009HailBuck Creek-no account filed
October 2000HailBuck Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Williamstown2.8 miles23
Perry6.2 miles24
Medina7.6 miles24
Thompsonville8.9 miles24
Newman9.9 miles24
McLouth10.8 miles20
Lakeside Village11.4 miles22
Oskaloosa11.5 miles22

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 Buck CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17182796The 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 484943. 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.