Homewood, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Homewood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66095. The Survey maps it on the Pomona quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Homewood between 2006 and 2019, burning about 740 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 burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 164 |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 65 |
| 25 June 2017 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Franklin County | 2017167 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 32 |
| 24 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Franklin County | 31 |
| 21 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 47 |
| 16 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Franklin County | 1700027 |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Franklin County | 82 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homewood in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Pea size hail also reported. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Homewood | - | Water flowing over Idaho Rd near Haskell Rd, approximately one mile south of I-35. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Tree and outbuilding damage. Wind speeds estimated at 60-90 MPH. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Tree branches down approximately 1-2 inches in diameter. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Homewood | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Homewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Homewood | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ransomville | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Princeton | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| B N Junction | 6.6 miles | 19 | |
| Richter | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Silkville | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Pomona | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Ottawa | 9.1 miles | 19 |
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 Homewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17183743 | The 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 479628. 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.







