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Eureka Lake, Kansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Manhattan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66502. It stands on Sevenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keats quadrangle.

Eureka Lake within Riley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

98 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Lake between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,472 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning32
Fireworks9
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreRiley County1674
5 August 2018Recreation and ceremony33 acresKansas Forest Service18507
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1379
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1570
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1193
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1194
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service18425
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1174

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka Lake in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2025Flash FloodEureka Lake$40,000Water running over roadways, vehicles were stranded.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEureka Lake-Several 1-2 inch tree limbs broken. Pictures via social media, time estimated by radar.
June 2023HailEureka Lake-Quarter sized hail reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEureka Lake-Measured on mesonet station.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindEureka Lake-Measured at ksu mesonet site.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEureka Lake-Wind gusts measured at Kansas Mesonet site.
June 2013HailEureka Lake-Report from social media. Time estimated from radar.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEureka Lake-Gust was measured by ASOS.
August 2019HailEureka Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riley 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
Sunset Park2.8 miles27
Manhattan4.2 miles27
Ogden4.5 miles25
Elm Hollow Corner4.7 miles25
Bluemont Hill5.1 miles27
Fairmont5.1 miles27
Keats6.2 miles25
Rocky Ford6.5 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484777. 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.