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Cornell, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle.

Cornell within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

91 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Cornell between 2015 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County1695
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrawford County128
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1083
20 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County82
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cornell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornell in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
March 2023HailCornell-Nickle sized hail was reported coving the ground.
May 2022Flash FloodCornell-Street flooding was reported on 580th and 260th Avenues.
September 2019Flash FloodCornell-Flash flooding was reported over a low water crossing on 580th Avenue.
August 2017FloodCornell-A one hundred foot section of State Line Road had several inches of water just south of Highway 160.
June 2009Funnel CloudCornell-Trained spotters observed a funnel cloud.
February 2011HailCornell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Midway1.0 miles24
Yale1.5 miles24
Litchfield1.8 miles24
Frontenac3.1 miles24
Curranville3.5 miles24
Fox Town3.6 miles24
Fuller4.1 miles26
Capaldo5.1 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484478. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.