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Newbury, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Newbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66526. The Survey maps it on the McFarland quadrangle.

Newbury within Wabaunsee County

On record in Newbury

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

28 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Newbury between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,388 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1

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
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWabaunsee County52
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service60
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service59
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service58
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service55
28 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWabaunsee County43
21 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKansas Forest Service467
17 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbury in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2024HailNewbury-Report from storm chaser north of I-70.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNewbury-Wind gust to 60 mph reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNewbury-Measured on a personal weather station. Time estimated by radar.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNewbury-Roof of a prefabricated building blown off. Time estimated based on radar.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindNewbury-Roof was blown off of a barn.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNewbury-A trained spotter near Paxico reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2011HailNewbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Paxico1.2 miles16
McFarland4.0 miles16
Vera4.4 miles16
Alma7.6 miles16
Maple Hill7.8 miles16
Allendorph8.1 miles16
Wabaunsee10.0 miles17
Keene11.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476612. 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.