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Faulkner, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neosho Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67336. The Survey maps it on the Chetopa quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Faulkner within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

21 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Faulkner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service215
2 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800034
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1800022
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service133
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1600024
22 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service30
20 March 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresCherokee County1100022

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faulkner in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 10 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 1997HailFaulkner$60,000no account filed
May 2015Flash FloodFaulkner$50,000The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director estimated that nearly 30 roads were flooded and impassable due to heavy rainfall. This flooding was centered in the western third of the county.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Faulkner$10,000NWS storm survey confirmed that an EF0 tornado tracked through the Faulkner area. Damage was limited to minor damage to the grain elevator and a nearby home.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindFaulkner$3,000Several large limbs were reported down. Siding damage occurred to one house.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFaulkner$2,000Several trees were blown down on 90th Street between Faulkner and Melrose, Kansas.
April 2026HailFaulkner-Quarter sized hail along with 60 mph winds were reported.
May 2020HailFaulkner-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2020HailFaulkner-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFaulkner-Winds were estimated at 60 mph by law enforcement in the western portions of the county.
August 2015Flash FloodFaulkner-Several county roads surrounding Fly Creek were flooded. Several county roads near Sherman, West Mineral, and Weir were flooded.
May 2015Flash FloodFaulkner-Southwest 70th Street was flooded and impassable between Messer and Clem Roads.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindFaulkner-Large tree limbs up to 12 inches in diameter were snapped.
June 2013Flash FloodFaulkner-Several roads were flooded around Fly Creek.
March 2012FloodFaulkner-Emergency management reported that Southwest 90th Street south of Hallowell was flooded due to heavy rainfall.
May 2011Flash FloodFaulkner-Southwest 90th Street between Beasley Road and Quaker Road was closed due to high water.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFaulkner-Thunderstorm winds were estimated to between 70 and 80 mph.
September 2009FloodFaulkner-A water rescue was preformed at SW 90th Street near Fly Creek.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindFaulkner-The emergency manager estimated a wind gust of 70 MPH.
May 2007FloodFaulkner-Flooding continued from persistent rainfall across Cherokee County.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Faulkner-This tornado is a continuation of the Labette County tornado that tracked south of Chetopa. The tornado crossed into Cherokee County near Highway 166, and tracked to three miles south of Faulkner. Only minor damage to a few trees were observed from the storm survey.
May 2006Flash FloodFaulkner-A section of Southwest Brush Creek Road was closed down due to impassable flash flood water.
May 2013HailFaulkner-no account filed
August 2012HailFaulkner-no account filed
February 2011HailFaulkner-no account filed
June 2008HailFaulkner-no account filed
July 2007HailFaulkner-no account filed
August 2003HailFaulkner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Hoag4.7 miles20
Hallowell5.1 miles19
Melrose5.6 miles19
Sherwin6.4 miles19
Keelville6.8 miles19
Columbus10.0 miles20
Cravensville10.1 miles21
Sherman11.0 miles18

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 FaulknerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16891254The 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 484435. 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.