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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.

De Graff within Butler County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

11 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
25 July 2012Natural3,800 acresKansas CountiesHWY 77 AND NW 150TH
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1826
11 April 2020Recreation and ceremony20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
1 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,000 acresButler Countynot named
1 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,500 acresButler Countynot named
5 March 2020Smoking85 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresKansas Forest Service389
7 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service151

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDe Graff-A shed received relatively minor damage.
September 2003Flash FloodDe Graff-County Line Road flooded 4 miles west of Highway 77 near Butler/Marion County line.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDe Graff-Trees uprooted.
June 2005HailDe Graff-no account filed
June 2005HailDe Graff-no account filed
August 1999HailDe Graff-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDe Graff-no account filed
June 1998HailDe Graff-no account filed
June 1998HailDe Graff-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindDe Graff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Hopkins6.9 miles13
Chelsea7.1 miles14
Potwin8.8 miles14
Aikman9.7 miles14
Oil Hill9.9 miles14
East El Dorado11.2 miles14
El Dorado11.3 miles14
Brainerd12.5 miles14

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.