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Daisy Hill, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cherokee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66781. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle.

Daisy Hill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

105 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Daisy Hill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 715 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service107
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service80127
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17073
27 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0041
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180107
18 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresCherokee County170036
5 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service60514

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Daisy Hill: 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
Weir Pit & PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daisy Hill in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDaisy Hill$5,000The roof of a home was damaged.
March 2024HailDaisy Hill-Social media report with picture of ping pong ball size hail just north of Weir.
September 2024HailDaisy Hill-Hail to the size of quarters fell a few miles southeast of the town of Cherokee along the Cherokee and Crawford county line.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Daisy Hill-A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 105 mph traveled along a half mile path in Cherokee County before continuing into Crawford County with a total path length of 2 miles. This tornado touched down to the northeast of Weir in the Brush Creek basin, where it snapped limbs from trees, then crossed Highway 400 near NE 50th Street into Crawford County Kansas.
April 2012HailDaisy Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Coal Valley (historical)0.2 miles20
Barrett (historical)0.4 miles20
Dutch Hollow (historical)0.8 miles20
Weir1.3 miles20
Scammon4.3 miles20
Roseland5.0 miles20
Carona5.8 miles20
Monte Carlo (historical)6.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484469. 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.