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Hamburg, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Santa Fe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67529. The Survey maps it on the Fort Larned quadrangle.

Hamburg within Pawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 1995 and 2018, burning about 81 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
31 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service26
21 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Larned National Historic SiteJOHN 2
11 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
2 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service5
14 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service12
13 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
6 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hamburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Eakin Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 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 2013Thunderstorm WindHamburg$5,000Six power poles were snapped off along L Road between 150th and 160th.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The measured gust was reported by the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The measured gust was reported by the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The measured gust was reported by the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The report was received from the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The report was received from the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The measured gust was reported by the Kansas State Mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The measured gust was reported by the Kansas State Mesonet.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Nine power poles were blown down and extensive damage to trees and other objects.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Several poles down near roads H and I and Highway 56. Also winds estimated at 70 mph.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-no account filed
April 2017HailHamburg-no account filed
May 2014HailHamburg-no account filed
May 2008HailHamburg-no account filed
May 2008HailHamburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Frizell3.6 miles15
Garfield5.1 miles15
Larned5.4 miles15
Zook6.4 miles15
Sanford8.5 miles15
Ray11.3 miles15
Bert Wettar11.4 miles15
Ash Valley12.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484752. 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.