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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.

Burdick within Morris County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2004

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burning20 acresMorris County217
23 February 2016Debris and open burning3.6 acresKansas Forest Service2016020
22 February 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016019
20 February 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

39 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Tornado (F1)Burdick$27,500A 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 1997Thunderstorm WindBurdick$1,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBurdick$500Three to four inch tree limbs were broken.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Vehicle-mounted anemometer measured wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Report of a 6 inch tree limb down.
May 2017HailBurdick-Report was received via social media.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Delayed report of 4-5 inch diameter tree limb snapped. Picture and report via Twitter.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Burdick-EM relayed report of a brief tornado on the ground at 742pm CDT.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindBurdick-A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Herington.
April 2012Tornado (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 2011Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Trained spotter estimated winds of 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBurdick-A lean to was blown off a barn in Burdick.
March 2009HailBurdick-Public report of hail the size of walnuts.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Spotter residence lost power.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBurdick-Antenna bent over the house and a pickup truck was pushed off the road.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBurdick-4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
November 2005Tornado (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 2026HailBurdick-no account filed
June 2017HailBurdick-no account filed
October 2016HailBurdick-no account filed
June 2015HailBurdick-no account filed
June 2015HailBurdick-no account filed
February 2012HailBurdick-no account filed
April 2011HailBurdick-no account filed
April 2011HailBurdick-no account filed
April 2011HailBurdick-no account filed
April 2011HailBurdick-no account filed
August 2009HailBurdick-no account filed
May 2007HailBurdick-no account filed
August 2007HailBurdick-no account filed
March 2006HailBurdick-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBurdick-no account filed
May 2003HailBurdick-no account filed
April 2002HailBurdick-no account filed
October 2002HailBurdick-no account filed
May 2000HailBurdick-no account filed
July 2000HailBurdick-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindBurdick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Diamond Springs5.4 miles15
Delavan6.6 miles15
Wilsey10.3 miles15
Latimer12.1 miles15
Helmick13.7 miles15
Parkerville16.9 miles15
White City17.0 miles15
Kelso18.8 miles15

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 BurdickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1010442The 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.