Burdick, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 8. It lies in ZIP code area 66838. The Survey maps it on the Burdick quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.
On record in Burdick
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 2 records
Oscar Carlson Houselisted 2000
Six Mile Creek Stage Station Historic Districtlisted 1995
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Burdick quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Burdick between 2004 and 2017, burning about 30 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Morris County | 217 |
| 23 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016020 |
| 22 February 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016019 |
| 20 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016016 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burdick in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 21 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Burdick | $27,500 | A tornado moved from Marion county into Morris county and touched down southwest of Burdick and moved northeast 5 miles before lifting. It struck a farm destroying part of the roof on a house and damaging a garage, two cars, a barn and some fenses. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | $500 | Three to four inch tree limbs were broken. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Vehicle-mounted anemometer measured wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Report of a 6 inch tree limb down. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Burdick | - | Report was received via social media. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Delayed report of 4-5 inch diameter tree limb snapped. Picture and report via Twitter. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Burdick | - | EM relayed report of a brief tornado on the ground at 742pm CDT. |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Herington. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Burdick | - | Law Enforcement reported a short narrow damage path to hedge row trees relayed by Emergency Manager. Corroborated with radar data and time estimated based off of radar and track from tornado that moved from Marion County. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Trained spotter estimated winds of 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | A lean to was blown off a barn in Burdick. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Burdick | - | Public report of hail the size of walnuts. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Spotter residence lost power. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | Antenna bent over the house and a pickup truck was pushed off the road. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Burdick | - | The tornado touched down 1 mile SW of Burdick and travelled north for 3 miles and dissipated 2 miles NW of Burdick while causing no damage. It was rated F0. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Burdick | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burdick | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Springs | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Delavan | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsey | 10.3 miles | 15 | |
| Latimer | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Helmick | 13.7 miles | 15 | |
| Parkerville | 16.9 miles | 15 | |
| White City | 17.0 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 18.8 miles | 15 |
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 Burdick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1010442 | The 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 477148. 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.





