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Lyona, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66441. The Survey maps it on the Woodbine quadrangle.

Lyona within Dickinson County

On record in Lyona

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lyona between 2010 and 2018, burning about 8,726 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,000 acresKansas CountiesSKIDDY WEST ROAD
7 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service84
7 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service53
5 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service51
16 April 2018Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service62
10 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service58
10 April 2015Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service57
31 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresKansas CountiesWOLF ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson 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 Lyona: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Woodbine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyona in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLyona-Building damage reported 1.5 miles southwest of Rock Spring Ranch where a home weather station measured a wind gust of 78 mph.
May 2016HailLyona-Delayed report of hail upwards of ping-pong balls. Some damage to vehicles and crops.
May 2016HailLyona-no account filed
June 2011HailLyona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Woodbine4.9 miles15
Pearl6.3 miles15
Shady Brook9.0 miles15
Chapman9.2 miles17
Enterprise10.5 miles17
Navarre10.5 miles15
Detroit11.5 miles17
Herington13.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484795. 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.