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New Lancaster, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66040. The Survey maps it on the New Lancaster quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

New Lancaster within Miami County

On record in New Lancaster

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of New Lancaster between 2015 and 2017, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service113
12 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiami County21
10 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiami County20
18 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMiami County13
29 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiami County21
28 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMiami County20
27 January 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service0127-01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lancaster in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017Flash FloodNew Lancaster1 killedA vehicle hydroplaned off the road on HWY 69 near 363rd Street. The vehicle left the roadway, then sank into the flooded ditch alongside the road. An occupant in the vehicle perished.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Lancaster$1,000Trees and power lines were reported down with winds estimated to 60 mph.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Lancaster-Downed trees and wires west of Drexel.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Lancaster-Personal weather station recorded wind gust 65 mph just west of Drexel.
August 2017Flash FloodNew Lancaster-HWY 69 at 359th St was closed due to flash flooding.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Lancaster-Numerous trees and powerlines were reported down in the vicinity of 327th and Beaver Creek Rd.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Lancaster-High winds picked up dust reducing visibility to around an 1/8th of a mile.
May 2003Tornado (F1)New Lancaster-Tornado just near New Lancaster in Miami county Kansas moved northeast into Cass county Missouri. The tornado was over open country.
May 1997Flash FloodNew Lancaster-Thunderstorms produced 1 to 3 inches of rain in a two hour time frame. Numerous streets were flooded in New Lancaster . The main road through New Lancaster was closed due to high water on the roadway.
August 2018HailNew Lancaster-no account filed
April 2015HailNew Lancaster-no account filed
May 2013HailNew Lancaster-no account filed
July 1994HailNew Lancaster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Drexel Corner3.1 miles15
Jingo4.5 miles15
Block4.9 miles17
Fontana6.1 miles15
Henson7.6 miles17
Somerset10.0 miles17
Ringer10.5 miles17
Paola10.8 miles17

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 LancasterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199040The 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 477646. 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.