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Morehead, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shiloh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66776. The Survey maps it on the Morehead quadrangle.

Morehead within Neosho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

25 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Morehead between 2015 and 2020, burning about 212 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning4

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
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMontgomery County1710045
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1810046
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500010
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morehead in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2008: 4 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 2008HailMorehead-no account filed
March 2003HailMorehead-no account filed
December 2002HailMorehead-no account filed
May 2002HailMorehead-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMorehead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Thayer7.8 miles19
Galesburg10.0 miles19
Urbana13.3 miles20
Hayden13.4 miles19
Earlton14.2 miles20
South Mound15.2 miles18
Shaw18.1 miles19
Erie18.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484474. 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.