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Hiattville, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66701. The Survey maps it on the Hiattville quadrangle.

Hiattville within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

32 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hiattville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,030 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
Smoking15
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreBourbon County210
7 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBourbon County120
6 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresBourbon County118
4 April 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service151
4 April 2015Smoking20 acresKansas Forest Service150
17 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use80 acresKansas Forest Service153
16 April 2015Smoking15 acresKansas Forest Service166
10 April 2018Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service140

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiattville in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 15 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2013HailHiattville-This spotter report was relayed through the Fort Scott Police Department.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHiattville-The public reported an estimated wind gust of 70 mph.
September 2009HailHiattville-A storm spotter reported hail denting cars.
July 2004Flash FloodHiattville-Heavy thunderstorms caused several small streams to flood over low water crossings near the community of Hiattville.
April 2015HailHiattville-no account filed
March 2013HailHiattville-no account filed
April 2012HailHiattville-no account filed
July 2012HailHiattville-no account filed
May 2010HailHiattville-no account filed
April 2008HailHiattville-no account filed
April 2008HailHiattville-no account filed
May 2004HailHiattville-no account filed
March 2003HailHiattville-no account filed
March 2003HailHiattville-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHiattville-no account filed
May 2002HailHiattville-no account filed
May 2002HailHiattville-no account filed
April 2000Tornado (F2)Hiattville-no account filed
September 2000HailHiattville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Hollister3.4 miles20
Pawnee Station4.5 miles22
Ronald6.0 miles20
Petersburg6.8 miles19
Redfield7.9 miles19
Marmaton8.0 miles20
Godfrey9.0 miles20
Rockford (historical)9.8 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 HiattvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892297The 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 474999. 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.