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Huntsville, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Huntsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67568. The Survey maps it on the Alden SE quadrangle.

Huntsville within Reno County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Huntsville between 2002 and 2008, burning about 258 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2

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
30 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined215 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeRENO #1
18 March 2008Smoking1.0 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeSYLVIA
3 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeHAYS CEMETARY
20 November 2002Smoking2.0 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeARTESIAN WELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huntsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carey Interpace Brine Evap PlantSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHuntsville-no account filed
August 2007HailHuntsville-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHuntsville-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHuntsville-no account filed
June 2001HailHuntsville-no account filed
May 1996HailHuntsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Plevna5.9 miles13
Kilbourns Corner7.0 miles14
Charters Corner7.8 miles14
McVays Corner8.0 miles14
Sylvia8.1 miles13
Abbyville8.8 miles13
Adams Corner12.6 miles16
Arlington13.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 480399. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.