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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-39 |
| 23 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 4012 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1175929 |
| 6 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-11 |
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-10 |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-19 |
| 20 March 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-15 |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Duluth | - | Quarter size hail observed. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Duluth | - | Hail was reported near Highway 16 and Major Jenkins Road. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Duluth | - | The public reported a creek running out of its bank 4 miles north of Onaga. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Duluth | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onaga | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Wheaton | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Havensville | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Blaine | 9.7 miles | 17 | |
| Aikins | 12.2 miles | 16 | |
| Laclede | 12.2 miles | 16 | |
| Westmoreland | 13.5 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Clere | 13.9 miles | 16 |
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 Duluth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18150315 | 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 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.






