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.
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
Joseph Heptig Barnlisted 2011
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Flush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176025 |
| 7 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 107 |
| 2 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176008 |
| 5 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 93 |
| 21 May 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 58 |
| 5 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Kansas Counties | DEXTER |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1175936 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1175937 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Flush | $50,000 | Officially, 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | $8,000 | Strong 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 1998 | Hail | Flush | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Tree limbs down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Wind gusts estimated. No major damage to report. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | Photo reported on social media...time estimated from radar. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | Mostly dime size hail. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Flush | - | 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 2008 | Tornado (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 2024 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Flush | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmoreland | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Saint George | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Swamp Angel | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Louisville | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Wamego | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Fostoria | 10.6 miles | 20 | |
| Laclede | 12.2 miles | 16 | |
| Olsburg | 13.2 miles | 20 |
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.







