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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Reserve quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 12 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 23 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 50 |
| 7 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500026 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 89 acres | Horton Agency | FINGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Padonia | $1,000 | Overnight 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 2023 | Hail | Padonia | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Padonia | - | Spotter said ground was covered white with hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Padonia | - | Trained spotted estimated the wind speed. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Padonia | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Padonia | - | Several rural roads closed due to high water across the road. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Padonia | - | Walnut creek is out of its banks. 280th rd southwest of Padonia has been closed because of the flood waters. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Padonia | - | Spotter estimated winds of 55-65 mph winds. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Padonia | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Padonia | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Padonia | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Padonia | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Padonia | - | 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.
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.








