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Greenwich, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Payne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67055. The Survey maps it on the Greenwich quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,404 feet above sea level.

Greenwich within Sedgwick County

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

78 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Greenwich between 2015 and 2018, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreButler County46
20 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service7135
31 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service6617
23 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6432
1 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick County5447
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County5450
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service40887
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service5050

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwich in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2023Heavy RainGreenwich-Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.10 inches.
May 2022Flash FloodGreenwich-There were at least 30 road closures and vehicle submersions with people trapped in cars in the Wichita area. One was described as floating near east 47th and Greenwood. The heavy rain continued into the early morning hours of June 1st.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-The report was relayed via twitter from Kfdi news.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Winds measured at 62 mph was reported 2 miles west of Benton.
June 2002HailGreenwich-Cooperative observer.
March 2026HailGreenwich-no account filed
May 2013HailGreenwich-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-no account filed
June 2008HailGreenwich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Arthur Heights3.4 miles19
Bellaire3.6 miles19
Tolerville4.0 miles19
Kechi4.1 miles19
Lakeside Acres4.5 miles19
Minneha5.1 miles19
Park City6.2 miles19
Brookhaven6.5 miles19

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 GreenwichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5604815The 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 473873. 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.