Henson, Kansas

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.

• 1887 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Paola East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Henson between 2015 and 2019, burning about 337 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ringer
• Block
• Paola
• Osawatomie
• Lento
• Beagle

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henson in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Miami County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479742. 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.