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Hobart, Kansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Plains Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67869. The Survey maps it on the Plains quadrangle.

Hobart within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hobart between 2015 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
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
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service00PFD20
15 July 2018Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18035
31 May 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresKansas Forest Service18028
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service18021
17 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMeade County17007
14 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1801006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-Mesonet site UP332 recorded a 67 mph wind gust.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHobart-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHobart-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHobart-no account filed
March 2012HailHobart-no account filed
February 2007HailHobart-no account filed
October 2007HailHobart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Collano1.0 miles8
Plains4.2 miles8
Missler5.0 miles13
Meade9.7 miles14
Fowler18.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484530. 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.