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.
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
New Lancaster General Storelisted 2013- New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223listed 2013
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS New Lancaster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 113 |
| 12 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 21 |
| 10 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 20 |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Miami County | 13 |
| 29 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 21 |
| 28 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Miami County | 20 |
| 27 January 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 0127-01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | New Lancaster | 1 killed | A 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down with winds estimated to 60 mph. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Downed trees and wires west of Drexel. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Personal weather station recorded wind gust 65 mph just west of Drexel. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | New Lancaster | - | HWY 69 at 359th St was closed due to flash flooding. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Numerous trees and powerlines were reported down in the vicinity of 327th and Beaver Creek Rd. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | High winds picked up dust reducing visibility to around an 1/8th of a mile. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (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 1997 | Flash Flood | New 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 2018 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | 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 Lancaster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199040 | 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 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.







