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Collano, Kansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Plains Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67869. The Survey maps it on the Plains quadrangle.

Collano within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Collano between 2015 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
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
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service00PFD20
31 May 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresKansas Forest Service18028
17 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
14 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1801006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

23 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collano in 23 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 15 hail, 4 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Collano$85,000This tornado destroyed a pivot irrigation sprinkler and threw oil drums around as it moved southeast.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Collano-This was a new tornado that developed east of the bigger Plains tornado but passed over open areas with no damage evident.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Collano-Another tornado spun up north of an 8 minute tornado near Collano. There was nothing to damage.
May 2015Heavy RainCollano-Rainfall of 4 inches was observed.
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Collano-This was a satellite tornado around the large Seward/Meade/Gray county tornado. It was also documented by video and still imagery. This tornado damaged several pivot irrigation sprinklers.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCollano-Winds were estimated to be 65 mph.
August 2008HailCollano-The hail stripped the leaves of the corn.
May 2020HailCollano-no account filed
May 2019HailCollano-no account filed
May 2015HailCollano-no account filed
June 2015HailCollano-no account filed
June 2013HailCollano-no account filed
March 2012HailCollano-no account filed
April 2010HailCollano-no account filed
June 2010HailCollano-no account filed
June 2010HailCollano-no account filed
June 2010HailCollano-no account filed
August 2010HailCollano-no account filed
June 2008HailCollano-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCollano-no account filed
June 2008HailCollano-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCollano-no account filed
June 2007HailCollano-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Hobart1.0 miles8
Missler4.0 miles13
Plains5.2 miles8
Meade8.9 miles14
Fowler17.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122545990The 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 484531. 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.