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Cleveland, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67068. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Cleveland within Kingman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 186 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKingman County17008
24 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1386
13 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKingman County1460
13 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1366
20 March 2017Debris and open burning80 acresKingman County1454
20 March 2017Debris and open burning80 acresKingman County1455
12 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1360

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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
February 2012Thunderstorm WindCleveland$40,000Center pivot irrigation system was overturned.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCleveland$5,000Downed limbs and power lines.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Cleveland$5,000A strong thunderstorm dropped golf ball-size and larger hail in several locations across Reno and Kingman counties. It also dropped two brief, weak tornadoes. The first twister touched ground, but caused no damage just east of Turon. The second caused minor damage to a home at Cleveland.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCleveland-The spotter also reported pea sized hail.
September 2025HailCleveland-Delayed report shared via KAKE News on Facebook. The hailstone appeared to be close to 3.75 inches in diameter.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Trained spotter reported rain blowing horizontally with visibility reduced to about 30ft.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Measured by a personal weather station.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Lasted for about 10 minutes.
July 2013HailCleveland-The trained spotter also reported 60 to 70 mph winds that occurred around 20 minutes.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCleveland-The estimated winds ranged from 60 to 70 mph and occurred for around 20 minutes.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Cleveland-The tornado moved over open country.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCleveland-A trained spotter reported the wind gust.
May 2025HailCleveland-no account filed
April 2015HailCleveland-no account filed
April 2014HailCleveland-no account filed
May 2014HailCleveland-no account filed
May 2012HailCleveland-no account filed
October 2007HailCleveland-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCleveland-no account filed
March 2003Thunderstorm WindCleveland-no account filed
June 2001HailCleveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Basil3.3 miles13
Alameda3.9 miles13
Kingman6.6 miles14
Rago7.4 miles15
Spivey7.5 miles15
Belmont7.9 miles13
Georgia8.5 miles14
Willowdale9.3 miles13

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 ClevelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5132028The 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 482725. 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.