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Kimball, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66733. The Survey maps it on the Stark quadrangle.

Kimball within Neosho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Kimball between 2002 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
4 September 2002Natural30 acresNeosho Countynot named
3 August 2004Debris and open burning30 acresNeosho Countynot named
19 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNeosho Countynot named
19 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNeosho Countynot named
18 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use50 acresNeosho Countynot named
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service201520

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimball in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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
May 1997HailKimball-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Stark2.3 miles21
Odense5.5 miles19
Erie7.7 miles21
Shaw9.1 miles19
Saint Paul9.8 miles21
Rollin10.4 miles19
Urbana14.4 miles20
Chanute15.6 miles20

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 KimballAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17030636The 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 474978. 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.