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Clare, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Gardner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66061. The Survey maps it on the Ocheltree quadrangle.

Clare within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

151 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Clare between 2003 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism13
Fireworks7
Smoking7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2470096
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2460103
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson Countynot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2660016
9 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2210055
9 August 2007Natural1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2200109

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clare in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
July 2025Flash FloodClare-Water Rescue from vehicle peformed by FD.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Gardner3.2 miles19
Bonita3.2 miles20
Olathe4.7 miles26
Ocheltree5.0 miles20
Spring Hill6.3 miles17
Morse8.0 miles20
Prairie Center (historical)8.2 miles18
Edgerton8.4 miles18

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 ClareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16258477The 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 484895. 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.