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Garland, Kansas

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Drywood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66741. The Survey maps it on the Garland quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Garland within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 26 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

15 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Garland between 2012 and 2020, burning about 652 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKansas CountiesEAGLE ROAD
22 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service015-028
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresKansas Forest Service30815
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service030815A
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKansas Forest Service60
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service022215A
11 March 2015Debris and open burning160 acresKansas Forest Service31115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garland in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarland$10,000A power pole was snapped at its base, tree limbs up to 10 inches in diameter were downed, and a trailer home received minor roof damage.
June 2009Flash FloodGarland$10,000Excessive rainfall caused widespread flash flooding of roads across the county. Several roads had sections that were washed out.
May 2010Flash FloodGarland$5,000A bridge was reported washed out, one mile south of Garland near the intersection of 230th and Deer roads.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGarland$1,000Report of a large tree on the roadway.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGarland-A tree was blown down.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Garland-A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that a tornado touched down west of Garland and tracked across the Kansas and Missouri state line near Garland, eventually tracking to near Bronaugh Misosuri. This tornado caused weak intermittent damage to trees along its path.
September 2003HailGarland-no account filed
July 1995HailGarland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Godfrey5.1 miles20
Edward5.3 miles20
Fort Scott8.7 miles20
Pawnee Station9.2 miles22
Ronald10.5 miles20
Hollister11.5 miles20
Marmaton12.8 miles20
Hiattville13.2 miles22

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 GarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523399The 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 475024. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.