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Norwood, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hayes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66067. The Survey maps it on the Le Loup quadrangle.

Norwood within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

53 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
25 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFranklin County2017195
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service311
22 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFranklin County2017191
20 July 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresFranklin County2017190
8 June 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFranklin County36
5 May 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFranklin County32
27 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service229
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFranklin County2017107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Flash FloodNorwood$25,000A water rescue was needed to get people out of a vehicle near Norwood, Kansas.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorwood-Semi overturned near mile marker 188 on I-35.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNorwood-Shingles were blown off of a house.
August 2017Flash FloodNorwood-Several rural roads are under water in the northeast portion of Franklin County. 2 water rescues from vehicles and 1 from a home.
August 2017Flash FloodNorwood-Water rescue reported in the 3800 block of Nebraska Drive in Ottawa.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNorwood-Estimated wind gust.
June 2013HailNorwood-Windows blown out of houses by the hail and wind.
June 2008Flash FloodNorwood-A spotter in Ottawa reported that they had received approximately two inches of rain in thirty minutes. This led to flash flooding across portions of Franklin County. Flash flooding was reported near the intersection of I-35 and Sand Creek Road. There were widespread washouts of gravel county roadways. Part of the roof of the Bank of America building in Ottawa collapsed, which allowed water to pour into the building. Cornfields were also inundated with water.
June 2019HailNorwood-no account filed
March 2017HailNorwood-no account filed
May 2016HailNorwood-no account filed
April 2015HailNorwood-no account filed
September 2015HailNorwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Le Loup4.7 miles17
Ottawa Junction5.4 miles18
Centropolis5.5 miles18
Ottawa6.6 miles19
Wellsville8.8 miles17
Richter9.7 miles17
Peoria10.1 miles17
B N Junction10.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484888. 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.