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Hedville, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67401. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

Hedville within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hedville between 2015 and 2017, burning about 240 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service44
28 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use35 acresSaline County2017017
3 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSaline County43
28 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service41
3 April 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresSaline County31
14 March 2017Debris and open burning180 acresSaline County28
9 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresSaline County10
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSaline County14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedville in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 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
September 2022Thunderstorm WindHedville$100,000Major damage occurred to this farmstead as a wet microburst pounded the area. The very large barn was completely decimated and damage to the home was also noted. Parts of the home allowed for the wind to enter the home and built-up pressure inside which actually blew an interior door off of its hinge and also pushed a window out. There were also about 100 round bales of hay that rolled 200-400 yards from the original location.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHedville$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew over five telephone poles and several large tree limbs were blown off.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHedville$25,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew over a camper near mile marker 248 on Interstate 70.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindHedville$2,500A car port was lifted from its foundation and a trampoline was lifted and tossed into the tree tops. This was a delayed storm report.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHedville-Trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2023Heavy RainHedville-Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.88 inches.
April 2022HailHedville-The report was received via mPING.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHedville-The public reported that tree limbs were blown down.
November 2022Heavy RainHedville-A Cocorahs observer reported 1.45 inches of rainfall.
September 2022HailHedville-Sixty mile per hour winds were also reported.
May 2021HailHedville-The hail was mainly dime to nickel size, but some quarter size also fell.
December 2021Funnel CloudHedville-Submitted a picture of a funnel as it moved away from their homestead. The image was relayed to the NWS from Saline County Emergency Management.
May 2020HailHedville-Mostly nickel sized hail with a couple larger.
May 2020Heavy RainHedville-Event total of 6.59 inches through reporting time in the last 24 hours.
May 2020Flash FloodHedville-Several yards underwater. The water was almost up to the knees of the observer at his house. Reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 6.59 inches.
May 2020Flash FloodHedville-Kansas Highway 140 between Salina and Brookville closed due to water over the road. Rainfall reports ranged from 3 to 4 inches in that area.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHedville-No damage was reported.
May 2017FloodHedville-Nuisance street flooding in Salina was noted.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHedville-Pea sized hail was also reported with the strong winds.
December 2015FloodHedville-Law enforcement reported a few roads closed near Gypsum creek. Especially along Highway 4. A culvert collapsed under McReynolds Road.
June 2009FloodHedville-Torrential rainfall from a slow moving thunderstorm produced some street flooding across central portions of Saline county during the late evening hours on the 25th.
June 2008HailHedville-Hail reported by KSNW television chaser.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Hedville-Occurred in open country.
May 2021HailHedville-no account filed
October 2016HailHedville-no account filed
October 2016HailHedville-no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindHedville-no account filed
September 2010HailHedville-no account filed
June 2008HailHedville-no account filed
May 2002HailHedville-no account filed
April 2001HailHedville-no account filed
April 2001HailHedville-no account filed
May 1999HailHedville-no account filed
May 1997HailHedville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Bavaria4.5 miles17
Shipton5.5 miles16
Marydel6.0 miles16
Trenton6.2 miles16
Glendale6.5 miles16
Phillips Village (historical)7.8 miles17
Salina8.1 miles16
Brookville8.3 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 HedvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5697718The 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 476784. 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.