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.
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
- Brenner Vineyards Historic Districtlisted 2005
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1926 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Sugar Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Atchison NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015013 |
| 6 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Doniphan County | 2017003 |
| 18 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018004 |
| 6 December 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 151008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2014 | Flood | Doniphan | - | Sedgwick Road was closed due to flooding. |
| May 1997 | Flood | Doniphan | - | 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 2015 | Hail | Doniphan | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Doniphan | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Doniphan | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Doniphan | - | 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.
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 Doniphan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5296131 | The 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.












