Patterson, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67020. The Survey maps it on the Patterson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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 Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Patterson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Patterson between 2015 and 2018, burning about 12 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 82 |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
| 22 April 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Reno County | 32 |
| 18 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Harvey County | 18096 |
| 14 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 40 |
| 7 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Harvey County | 4 |
| 21 December 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patterson in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2001: 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1993 | Hail | Patterson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Patterson | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Patterson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burrton | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Paxton | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Halstead | 8.7 miles | 15 | |
| Sedgwick | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Alta Mills | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Van Arsdale | 12.7 miles | 15 | |
| Putnam | 14.3 miles | 15 | |
| McGraw | 15.9 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484647. 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.







