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Medora, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Medora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67502. The Survey maps it on the Buhler quadrangle.

Medora within Reno County

On record in Medora

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

83 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Medora between 2004 and 2018, burning about 4,951 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2959
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreReno County2336
30 July 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2572
29 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2863
28 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreReno County51
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2520
20 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service2471
10 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2372

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medora in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2007: 2 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMedora-Large limbs downed.
May 2007HailMedora-no account filed
July 2000HailMedora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Buhler4.1 miles14
Obeeville6.3 miles15
Hutchinson7.5 miles15
Willowbrook8.4 miles15
Yaggy9.4 miles16
South Hutchinson9.7 miles15
Punkin Center10.0 miles15
Nickerson12.6 miles14

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 MedoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18358740The 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 477730. 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.