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Langley, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Langley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67464. The Survey maps it on the Langley quadrangle. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.

Langley within Ellsworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Langley between 2012 and 2017, burning about 8,049 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Counties2ND AND SIOUX
6 July 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMcPherson County50
18 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service13
11 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresMcPherson County2ND AND SIOUX
10 March 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service8
8 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,239 acresMcPherson County2017-00000869
8 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresEllsworth County33

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellsworth County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langley in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2000: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2000Tornado (F1)Langley$10,000Though shortlived, tornado caused damage to a farmstead.
May 1996HailLangley-no account filed
May 1996HailLangley-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLangley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellsworth 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
Kanopolis Lake Park4.4 miles16
Venango6.5 miles18
Yankee Run7.8 miles14
Midway11.0 miles15
Terra Cotta13.5 miles18
Carneiro13.7 miles14
Arcola14.2 miles17
Frantz (historical)14.6 miles15

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 LangleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199009The 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 477049. 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.