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Flush, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pottawatomie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66535. It stands on Hopkins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flush quadrangle.

Flush within Pottawatomie County

On record in Flush

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

29 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Flush between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,997 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176025
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePottawatomie County107
2 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176008
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePottawatomie County93
21 May 2017Smokingunder an acrePottawatomie County58
5 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresKansas CountiesDEXTER
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1175936
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1175937

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flush in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2007Flash FloodFlush$50,000Officially, four to six inches of rain with locally nearly 7.75 inches in less than four hours led to flash flooding over central and southwest Pottawatomie county. One unofficial amount of nearly 12.5 inches was noted in a newspaper report. There was enough force from the running water to pull hedge posts buried over 3 and a half feet out of the ground on one homestead. Several area roads were closed and parts of the Flush road were washed out. |
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFlush$8,000Strong thunderstorms brought periods of strong winds and heavy rain to portions of Pottawatomie County on the afternoon of Aug 10, 2010. These storms produced strong winds which broke or damaged 6 power poles near a landfill along Wheaton Road near Louisville. The Kansas Department of Transportation reported a roof was torn off a barn-style metal shed located near Highway 24 and Onaga Road. Many spotters throughout the area reported 60 to 70 mph winds with this storm.
May 1998HailFlush$1,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFlush-Tree limbs down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFlush-Estimated wind gust report.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFlush-Wind gusts estimated. No major damage to report.
June 2013HailFlush-Photo reported on social media...time estimated from radar.
June 2013HailFlush-Mostly dime size hail.
June 2010Flash FloodFlush-Flush road was closed 10 miles northwest of Wamego near Hopkins Creek. Two roads also flooded on the north side of Milford Lake near Milford.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Flush-The mesocyclone within this thunderstorm produced a tornado in western Pottawatomie County which lifted, then produced a second, stronger tornado that went through Soldier. This tornado produced only minor damage for the most part. The beginning of the tornado path was marked by broken large tree branches. Along the path, more large tree branches were broken, a grain bin was blown into a field, and several tree tops were damaged. The end of the tornado path was near where several trees were broken off in a cemetary to the north-northwest of Louisville.
June 2024HailFlush-no account filed
June 2013HailFlush-no account filed
June 2011HailFlush-no account filed
May 2010HailFlush-no account filed
August 2009HailFlush-no account filed
August 2009HailFlush-no account filed
July 2003HailFlush-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindFlush-no account filed
June 2001HailFlush-no account filed
May 1998HailFlush-no account filed
June 1998HailFlush-no account filed
June 1995HailFlush-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
Westmoreland7.0 miles17
Saint George7.2 miles18
Swamp Angel7.2 miles18
Louisville7.3 miles16
Wamego9.6 miles17
Fostoria10.6 miles20
Laclede12.2 miles16
Olsburg13.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484769. 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.