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Hitschmann, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67525. The Survey maps it on the Claflin quadrangle. It stands 1,926 feet above sea level.

Hitschmann within Barton County

On record in Hitschmann

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hitschmann between 2015 and 2020, burning about 139 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
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
25 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15024
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service15004
5 March 2016Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service16008
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service15010
18 February 2017Debris and open burning80 acresBarton County17008
1 December 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service16042
5 November 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16037

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitschmann in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 5 tornado, 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Hitschmann$65,000A seven mile long track tornado caused minor damage to three homesteads in the northeast section of the county. Damage was mainly to trees and powerlines, but a metal building and a metal silo and feed bin received damage as well.
September 2014LightningHitschmann$5,000Hay bales were struck by lightning and started a fire.
July 2023HailHitschmann-Spotter reported mostly pea to dime sized hail. A couple of hail stones were up to quarter-sized.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Hitschmann-Very brief touchdown in open country with no damage reported.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Hitschmann-Brief touchdown of less than one minute in an open field. No damage was reported.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHitschmann-Dime sized hail was also reported.
May 2020Heavy RainHitschmann-Event total of 3 inches in the last 24 hour period.
August 2019Tornado (EFU)Hitschmann-This was a brief tornado that occurred in open country. No damage was reported.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHitschmann-Occurred along with pea-sized hail.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Hitschmann-Occurred right on the Russell/Barton County line.
April 2026HailHitschmann-no account filed
August 2019HailHitschmann-no account filed
April 2001HailHitschmann-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Odin4.3 miles13
Beaver4.7 miles13
Dubuque5.2 miles13
Farhman5.3 miles13
Claflin7.3 miles13
Redwing8.3 miles13
Susank10.3 miles13
Hoisington12.7 miles13

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 HitschmannAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q97516226The 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 475439. 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.