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Darlow, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67501. The Survey maps it on the Elmer quadrangle.

Darlow within Reno County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

21 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Darlow between 2015 and 2018, burning about 124 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service75
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2920
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2812
13 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreReno County231
12 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresReno County68
26 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use18 acresKansas Forest Service55
7 April 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresKansas Forest Service53

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darlow in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 1999HailDarlow-no account filed
October 1998Thunderstorm WindDarlow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Cruppers Corner2.1 miles13
Elmer2.2 miles13
Yoder4.3 miles13
Castleton5.1 miles14
Whiteside5.7 miles16
South Hutchinson6.0 miles15
Partridge7.8 miles13
Hutchinson8.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 473641. 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.