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Doniphan, Kansas

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66002. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atchison NE quadrangle.

Doniphan within Doniphan County

On record in Doniphan

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Doniphan between 2015 and 2018, burning about 84 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
6 February 2017Debris and open burning80 acresDoniphan County2017003
18 February 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018004
6 December 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service151008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doniphan in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 4 hail, 2 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
October 2014FloodDoniphan-Sedgwick Road was closed due to flooding.
May 1997FloodDoniphan-Thunderstorms dropped 1 to 3 inches of rain across the county resulting highway flooding. County sherrif office reported running water on numerous county roads.
April 2015HailDoniphan-no account filed
June 2008HailDoniphan-no account filed
June 2008HailDoniphan-no account filed
February 2000HailDoniphan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Brenner6.1 miles27
Palermo8.4 miles18
Bendena8.6 miles27
Moray9.6 miles23
Troy9.8 miles23
Blair10.6 miles23
Wathena10.7 miles21
Denton11.8 miles20

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 DoniphanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5296131The 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 473282. 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.