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Globe, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66524. The Survey maps it on the Globe quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Globe within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

24 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Globe between 2015 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service191
23 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2018Debris and open burning9.0 acresKansas Forest Service407181
11 April 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresDouglas County30
11 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresDouglas County29
9 March 2018Arson/incendiarism95 acresKansas Forest Service309181
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresDouglas County306171
6 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Globe in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. The reports record 12 injuries. 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 2019Tornado (EF2)Globe12 hurtNWS employees surveyed the track and found damage beginning around 2 miles southeast of Overbrook that continued northeast into Douglas county. The sporadic damage path continued to just east southeast of Lone Star Lake in Douglas County where it merged with a larger circulation that eventually become the long track violent tornado. This tornado did impact vehicles in the path of the tornado resulting in several injuries.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindGlobe$1,800,000A 1.5 mile wide swath of very strong straight line or downburst winds moved west to east across the southern section of the county, just south of US Highway 56. Numerous homes, buildings, farms and barns reported varying degrees of damage. Crops in the area were also damaged or destroyed. This supercell storm also produced a brief tornado near Baldwin City (see other entries for details).
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGlobe$25,000A cement block silo was blown down. Several grain bins and tin sheds were damaged. Tin debris was blown nearly a quarter of a mile downstream. The house on the farm property had several windows broken out on its southern side. Several tree branches around 6 inches in diameter were blown down as well. The survey team estimated 75 to 80 mph winds at the residence.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGlobe$2,500Several power poles were blown down along East 550 Road and Highway 56 near Baldwin City.
September 2000HailGlobe$1,000Golfball size hail punched holes through a screen and damaged the siding on a house.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindGlobe$1,000Strong winds damaged singles on a roof.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGlobe-EM reported a porch torn off of a house and power poles down.
February 2012Tornado (EF1)Globe-This is a continuation of the tornado track from Franklin County. Franklin and Douglas County Emergency Managers surveyed damage from a tornado that crossed the border between the two counties. A very well defined and continuous swath of enhanced damage from a brief tornado was noted from both Emergency Managers. No specific town was impacted by the tornado, but many rural residences and farmsteads sustained quite a bit of damage in the form of damaged homes and destroyed outbuildings, trailers, and grain bins.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Globe-A tornado touched down briefly over open country west of Globe and did no damage.
May 2018HailGlobe-no account filed
September 2015HailGlobe-no account filed
March 2009HailGlobe-no account filed
March 2009HailGlobe-no account filed
May 2008HailGlobe-no account filed
May 2003HailGlobe-no account filed
May 2003HailGlobe-no account filed
July 2002HailGlobe-no account filed
April 2001HailGlobe-no account filed
April 2001HailGlobe-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGlobe-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGlobe-no account filed
June 1998HailGlobe-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGlobe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Worden3.5 miles18
Lone Star6.3 miles18
Pleasant Grove8.5 miles18
Clinton8.9 miles20
Baldwin City11.3 miles17
Vinland12.2 miles17
Sibleyville12.9 miles19
Kanwaka13.2 miles21

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 GlobeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5570948The 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 484892. 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.