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Groveland, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67460. The Survey maps it on the McPherson South quadrangle.

Groveland within McPherson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Groveland between 2002 and 2018, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMcPherson Countynot named
29 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMcPherson County837
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMcPherson Countynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcPherson Countynot named
20 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMcPherson Countynot named
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service132
12 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMcPherson County116
8 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresMcPherson County94

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groveland in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 4 hail. 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 2007HailGroveland-no account filed
March 2007HailGroveland-no account filed
August 2001HailGroveland-no account filed
July 1997HailGroveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson 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
Inman4.8 miles14
Elyria5.4 miles16
Conway6.1 miles16
McPherson6.4 miles16
Hilton10.7 miles16
Windom11.4 miles15
Galva11.9 miles16
New Gottland12.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484816. 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.