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Halls Summit, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Key West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66871. The Survey maps it on the New Strawn quadrangle.

Halls Summit within Coffey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Halls Summit between 2006 and 2018, burning about 793 acres in total. None 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning12
Smoking1

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
4 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCoffey County191
28 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service289
17 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCoffey County219
12 April 2006Debris and open burning225 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeEAST OF LEBO CREEK
11 April 2017Debris and open burning12 acresCoffey County201
10 April 2018Smoking30 acresKansas Forest Service235
31 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service135
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey 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 Halls Summit: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
B&H Rock Company QuarryStoneUnknown
Wuerfele Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halls Summit in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 1996LightningHalls Summit$80,000no account filed
June 2007Flash FloodHalls Summit$60,000Sheriff reports a swift current of water flowing over 23rd rd. between US 75 and Kafir rd. Water was flowing fast enough that officer did not want to try and cross the road...at least 4 inches deep.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHalls Summit$8,000Five power poles were destroyed on the west side of U.S. Highway 75.
May 2020Flash FloodHalls Summit-Emergency manager reported water over roadways.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHalls Summit-Estimated wind gust report.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHalls Summit-An AWOS station at Coffey County Airport near Burlington recorded a 62 mph wind gust. Near Beto Junction, an Emergency Manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
March 2011HailHalls Summit-Officers responded to accidents on I-35 and reported nickel sized hail covering the highway making it slick.
August 2019HailHalls Summit-no account filed
March 2018HailHalls Summit-no account filed
August 2016HailHalls Summit-no account filed
August 2016HailHalls Summit-no account filed
May 2012HailHalls Summit-no account filed
May 2012HailHalls Summit-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudHalls Summit-no account filed
May 2009HailHalls Summit-no account filed
May 2009HailHalls Summit-no account filed
April 2008HailHalls Summit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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
Beto Junction4.1 miles18
Sharpe4.6 miles16
Waverly5.0 miles17
New Strawn6.8 miles16
Ottumwa8.1 miles16
Agricola9.0 miles17
Lebo10.6 miles17
Burlington11.1 miles17

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 Halls SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17183555The 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 477472. 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.