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Padonia, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Padonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66434. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Reserve quadrangle.

Padonia within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

26 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Padonia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 210 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrown County12
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
23 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrown County50
7 March 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500026
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service24
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service11
31 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service39
31 March 2005Debris and open burning89 acresHorton AgencyFINGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Padonia in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 2009Flash FloodPadonia$1,000Overnight thunderstorms produced flash flooding across parts of Brown County Kansas. Parts of Prairie road between 310 and 340 north were barricaded due to water over the road in Brown County.
April 2023HailPadonia-Nickel sized hail reported.
March 2020HailPadonia-Spotter said ground was covered white with hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPadonia-Trained spotted estimated the wind speed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPadonia-Estimated wind gust.
September 2016Flash FloodPadonia-Several rural roads closed due to high water across the road.
June 2015FloodPadonia-Walnut creek is out of its banks. 280th rd southwest of Padonia has been closed because of the flood waters.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPadonia-Spotter estimated winds of 55-65 mph winds.
August 2019HailPadonia-no account filed
August 2019HailPadonia-no account filed
August 2012HailPadonia-no account filed
June 2011HailPadonia-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPadonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Hamlin3.5 miles17
Reserve3.7 miles17
Hiawatha5.1 miles18
Morrill6.9 miles17
Sun Springs7.8 miles17
Fairview10.4 miles17
Robinson10.9 miles20
Baker11.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 472783. 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.