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.
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.
- Paxico Rural High Schoollisted 2022 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Mc Farland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wabaunsee County | 52 |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 60 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 59 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 58 |
| 7 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 55 |
| 28 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wabaunsee County | 43 |
| 21 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 467 |
| 17 June 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 466 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Hail | Newbury | - | Report from storm chaser north of I-70. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbury | - | Wind gust to 60 mph reported. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbury | - | Measured on a personal weather station. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbury | - | Roof of a prefabricated building blown off. Time estimated based on radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbury | - | Roof was blown off of a barn. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbury | - | A trained spotter near Paxico reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Newbury | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paxico | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| McFarland | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Vera | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Alma | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Maple Hill | 7.8 miles | 16 | |
| Allendorph | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Wabaunsee | 10.0 miles | 17 | |
| Keene | 11.4 miles | 16 |
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.







