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Kirkwood, Kansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. It stands on First Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle.

Kirkwood within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

179 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Kirkwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 were 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/undetermined102
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service730019
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service107
12 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1339
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17073
5 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1095
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1272
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1083

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Kirkwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Kirkwood$25,000A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 105 mph traveled along a total 2 mile path. This tornado tracked out of Cherokee County crossing Highway 400 near NE 50th Street and northeast across Crawford County for a mile and a half. Damage continued to trees as the tornado tracked northeast, then heavily damaged a barn on E 510th Avenue before lifting southeast of Kramer.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindKirkwood$10,000A large tree was reported down on power lines at the intersection of 520th and 200th Roads.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindKirkwood$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over a power line.
April 2025Flash FloodKirkwood-Heavy rainfall caused some significant cropland flooding between Highway 171 and East 510th Road. This also impacted low water areas along Highway 69 with water reported on the road.
March 2024HailKirkwood-Half dollar size hail fell just south of Chicopee.
April 2023HailKirkwood-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2023HailKirkwood-Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing.
April 2023HailKirkwood-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2013HailKirkwood-This report was at the intersection of 400 Highway and Highway 69.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Winds were estimated by law enforcement officers.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple tree limbs from two to four inches in diameter.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Several trees were reported down.
March 2013HailKirkwood-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-no account filed
March 2007HailKirkwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Atlas0.2 miles23
Kramer0.8 miles23
Chicopee1.3 miles24
Langdon1.5 miles23
Klondike2.0 miles20
Pittsburg2.9 miles24
Fleming3.2 miles20
Lone Oak4.7 miles24

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 KirkwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154093The 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 484463. 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.