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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.

Patterson within Harvey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

7 since 2015

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
16 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service82
5 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service15
22 April 2017Fireworksunder an acreReno County32
18 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresHarvey County18096
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service40
7 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHarvey County4
21 December 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harvey County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailPatterson$5,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPatterson-no account filed
May 2001HailPatterson-no account filed
May 2001HailPatterson-no account filed
February 2000HailPatterson-no account filed
June 2000HailPatterson-no account filed
June 2000HailPatterson-no account filed
May 1999HailPatterson-no account filed
May 1997Tornado (F0)Patterson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harvey 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
Burrton5.6 miles14
Paxton5.9 miles15
Halstead8.7 miles15
Sedgwick12.5 miles15
Alta Mills12.5 miles15
Van Arsdale12.7 miles15
Putnam14.3 miles15
McGraw15.9 miles16

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.