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Duluth, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66521. The Survey maps it on the Duluth quadrangle.

Duluth within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Duluth between 2015 and 2018, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-39
23 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePottawatomie County4012
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1175929
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016-11
5 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016-10
31 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-19
20 March 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016-15
17 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresPottawatomie County4004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duluth in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 hail, 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 2025HailDuluth-Quarter size hail observed.
April 2018HailDuluth-Hail was reported near Highway 16 and Major Jenkins Road.
April 2013Flash FloodDuluth-The public reported a creek running out of its bank 4 miles north of Onaga.
June 2015HailDuluth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Onaga3.7 miles15
Wheaton5.4 miles15
Havensville7.7 miles14
Blaine9.7 miles17
Aikins12.2 miles16
Laclede12.2 miles16
Westmoreland13.5 miles17
Saint Clere13.9 miles16

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 DuluthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150315The 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 473431. 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.