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Laclede, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66547. It stands on Pomeroy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laclede quadrangle.

Laclede within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Laclede between 2005 and 2018, burning about 8,495 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1176002
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,000 acresKansas Forest ServiceOAKS
30 March 2018Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service1175902
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism10 acresKansas Forest Service2015-14
29 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service2016-08

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laclede in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLaclede-Estimated wind gust.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLaclede-Relayed report of wind gust from sheriff deputy on Onaga Road.
April 2025HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
June 2011HailLaclede-no account filed
May 2002HailLaclede-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Aikins5.7 miles16
Louisville8.3 miles16
Saint Clere8.9 miles16
Emmett9.2 miles16
Belvue9.3 miles17
Onaga10.1 miles15
Westmoreland10.7 miles17
Wamego11.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484770. 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.