BlockNew Almelo, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland-District 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67645. The Survey maps it on the Lenora West quadrangle. It stands 2,402 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lenora West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Almelo in 2015, burning about 300 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2015 | Natural | 300 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Almelo in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | New Almelo | 1 killed | The North Fork of the Solomon River was out of its banks causing all of Lenora to be flooded, along with a stretch of Highway 9 coming into town as well as elsewhere in the southern part of the county. Swift water rescues occurred in the southern part of Norton county during the late evening of the third. One of these rescues involved a couple who under estimated the depth of the water over the highway and drove through the flood waters on Highway 9. The vehicle was washed off the road and caught in a tree. The couple escaped from the vehicle and climbed into the tree, remaining there until rescuers arrived. There was one direct fatality from the flooding. The individual was driving north from Graham County on county roads toward Lenora. He drove into flood waters, under estimating their depth. His vehicle was washed off the road. His body was found a quarter mile away from the vehicle. In general, the majority of the rainfall fell south of CR W. Rainfall amounts of five to seven inches were common across southern Norton County. No information was given for property damage. |
| June 2006 | Hail | New Almelo | $24,000 | Several homes and 1 school reported broken windows, with siding and roof damage from hail and wind. |
| June 2006 | Hail | New Almelo | $3,000 | Hail damaged crops, house siding and broke windows. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | Reported via Weather Underground mesonet station KKSCLAYT3. |
| June 2022 | Hail | New Almelo | - | Pea to penny sized hail reported. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | Reported via Weather Underground, mesonet station KKSCLAYT3 measured a wind gust of 77 mph. |
| March 2018 | Hail | New Almelo | - | The hail ranged from pea to quarter in size. |
| September 2016 | Flood | New Almelo | - | As of 2 PM CST water is still covering many roads and bridges in the south part of the county. Prairie Dog Creek and the North Fork of the Solomon River continue to be out of their banks. No information was given for property damage. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | Thunderstorm winds brought down tree limbs that were three to five inches in diameter. |
| May 2021 | Hail | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Almelo | - | no account filed |
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.
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 New Almelo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1956353 | The 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 471120. 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.