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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.

Homewood within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

41 since 2006

Regional 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service164
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service65
25 June 2017Other causes1.0 acresFranklin County2017167
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service32
24 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresFranklin County31
21 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service47
16 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFranklin County1700027
15 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFranklin County82

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Pea size hail also reported.
July 2024Flash FloodHomewood-Water flowing over Idaho Rd near Haskell Rd, approximately one mile south of I-35.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Tree and outbuilding damage. Wind speeds estimated at 60-90 MPH.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Tree branches down approximately 1-2 inches in diameter.
April 2018HailHomewood-no account filed
March 2011HailHomewood-no account filed
April 2010HailHomewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Ransomville2.6 miles17
Williamsburg5.2 miles18
Princeton5.8 miles17
B N Junction6.6 miles19
Richter6.7 miles17
Silkville7.4 miles18
Pomona7.5 miles17
Ottawa9.1 miles19

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 HomewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17183743The 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.