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Croweburg, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66756. The Survey maps it on the Arma quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Croweburg within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

89 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Croweburg between 2015 and 2020, burning about 562 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
28 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreCrawford County017-085
27 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-16
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-056
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-017
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018-09
11 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018-10
10 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-049
7 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County017-053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croweburg in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCroweburg$20,000A few power lines and large limbs were reported down resulting in power outages.
June 2025HailCroweburg-Hail to the size of quarters fell near Arma.
March 2019HailCroweburg-Hail up to the size of nickles was reported.
August 2017Heavy RainCroweburg-A 24 hour rainfall total of 5.60 inches was measured at a mesonet station near Croweburg.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCroweburg-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees near 240th Street and 660 Street. Another area of tree damage occurred near Arma.

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
Barber1.2 miles24
Arma2.0 miles24
Mertz2.1 miles24
Red Onion2.3 miles24
Mulberry2.3 miles26
Franklin3.0 miles24
Fox Town3.1 miles24
Gross3.2 miles24

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 CroweburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890731The 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 475150. 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.