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Lenape, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66052. The Survey maps it on the De Soto quadrangle.

Lenape within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

113 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Lenape between 2001 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2460114
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2630093
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2400166
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2250085
1 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKansas State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service198
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenape in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2019Thunderstorm WindLenape$5,000Dispatchers reported that power poles were blown down near Sherman Township.
June 2007Flash FloodLenape$2,000Flooding in buildings was reported at Tall Oaks Christian Camp...3 miles from the intersection of Kansas Highway 10 and Kill Creek Road.
March 2024HailLenape-Quarter size hail reported just north of De Soto in southern Leavenworth County.
May 2021Flash FloodLenape-Six cars were stalled in the intersection due to running water.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLenape-A tree was knocked down onto power lines at 171st and Cantrell Road.
June 2010FloodLenape-Up to four inches of water was reported over 174th Street and Hemphill Road.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLenape-Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph.
March 2017HailLenape-no account filed
March 2011HailLenape-no account filed
March 1993HailLenape-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leavenworth 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
Coldspur1.5 miles36
Mahon2.8 miles36
Little Kaw3.1 miles36
Linwood4.7 miles23
Fall Leaf8.6 miles21
South Basehor9.1 miles35
Stone9.2 miles35
Reno9.7 miles23

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 LenapeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657942The 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 484881. 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.