De Graff, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66840. The Survey maps it on the De Graff quadrangle.
On record in De Graff
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- First Presbyterian Church of De Grafflisted 2014 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Eldorado quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS De Graff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of De Graff between 1996 and 2020, burning about 19,449 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2012 | Natural | 3,800 acres | Kansas Counties | HWY 77 AND NW 150TH |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1826 |
| 11 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 1 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,000 acres | Butler County | not named |
| 1 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,500 acres | Butler County | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Smoking | 85 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 389 |
| 7 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 151 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Graff in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Graff | - | A shed received relatively minor damage. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | De Graff | - | County Line Road flooded 4 miles west of Highway 77 near Butler/Marion County line. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Graff | - | Trees uprooted. |
| June 2005 | Hail | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | De Graff | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Graff | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474396. 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.





