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Mont Ida, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66091. The Survey maps it on the Welda quadrangle.

Mont Ida within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mont Ida between 2015 and 2020, burning about 192 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
25 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnderson County1758025
19 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAnderson County1757049
27 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnderson County1758025
27 April 2018Debris and open burning22 acresKansas Forest Service1852097
9 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1857016
31 March 2015Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service1557027
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service1557022

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mont Ida in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 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 2024HailMont Ida-Time estimated from radar.
May 2019Flash FloodMont Ida-Water was reported over Kentucky Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMont Ida-Delayed report of tree limbs down. Size unknown.
September 2018Flash FloodMont Ida-The roadway was closed due to water across the road.
September 2018Flash FloodMont Ida-High water closed 1600 road between Iowa and Indiana roads.
October 2018Flash FloodMont Ida-A roadway was closed due to flash-flooding.
October 2018Flash FloodMont Ida-Road closed at 1600 Road and Indiana Road due to flooding.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMont Ida-Two outbuildings had their tin roofs blown off.
October 2017HailMont Ida-Correction to previous hail report from Garnett.
October 2014HailMont Ida-A few golf balls reported.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMont Ida-Wind damage reported in several locations across Anderson County. Roof removed from barn, windows broken out of home, shingles off of homes, and a missing carport.
July 2020HailMont Ida-no account filed
June 2019HailMont Ida-no account filed
April 1998HailMont Ida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Central3.9 miles17
Welda5.1 miles16
Glenlock6.6 miles17
Westphalia6.9 miles16
Harris8.0 miles17
Garnett8.0 miles17
Colony10.1 miles16
Lone Elm11.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477885. 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.