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Buckeye, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cheever Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67410. The Survey maps it on the Buckeye quadrangle.

Buckeye within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye between 2015 and 2017, burning about 114 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDickinson County170005
24 March 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresClay County15
21 March 2017Debris and open burning25 acresClay County14
19 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresClay County13
18 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresClay County12
18 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresClay County10
18 February 2017Debris and open burning50 acresClay County5
17 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDickinson County2740

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buckeye: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
P.W. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckeye in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003HailBuckeye$150,000Large hail damaged buildings and destroyed some crops in the Buckeye area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBuckeye$500A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds, with doors to home blown in and a steel patio table overturned.
July 2023HailBuckeye-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2023HailBuckeye-Quarter sized hail reported.
April 2022HailBuckeye-Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2022HailBuckeye-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-Power out with numerous tree branches reported down. Time estimated from radar.
September 2020HailBuckeye-Nickel sized hail covering the ground about 18 miles south of Clay Center. Time estimated from radar.
September 2020HailBuckeye-Hail covering the ground.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-Wind gusts estimated.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Buckeye-The parent storm of the tornado that moved through Ottawa and Dickinson Counties formed another brief and weak tornado between Manchester and Industry. The only evidence of this tornado comes in the form of spotter and chaser reports, as survey teams did not locate any damage. The tornado dissipated over an open field near Industry.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-A large Oak tree was knocked down near Talmage.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-Tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter were broken.
April 2025Funnel CloudBuckeye-no account filed
April 2016HailBuckeye-no account filed
April 2016HailBuckeye-no account filed
October 2016HailBuckeye-no account filed
June 2015HailBuckeye-no account filed
May 2014HailBuckeye-no account filed
May 2014HailBuckeye-no account filed
April 2013HailBuckeye-no account filed
July 2011HailBuckeye-no account filed
October 2011HailBuckeye-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Moonlight4.6 miles15
Talmage5.2 miles15
Sutphen5.9 miles15
Detroit8.1 miles17
Upland8.4 miles15
Manchester9.0 miles15
Chapman9.2 miles17
Abilene9.3 miles16

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 BuckeyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4983049The 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 484782. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.