Pawnee Station, Kansas
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66701. The Survey maps it on the Hiattville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 22 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Girard quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Girard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hiattville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Pawnee Station between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,357 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Bourbon County | 120 |
| 4 April 2015 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 151 |
| 4 April 2015 | Smoking | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150 |
| 10 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 140 |
| 8 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 63 |
| 8 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 62 |
| 8 March 2015 | Smoking | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 72 |
| 30 March 2015 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 144 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pawnee Station in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 6 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee Station | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn near 160TH and Fern Road northwest of Pawnee Station. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Pawnee Station | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee Station | - | 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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Pawnee Station | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17199059 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 475000. 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.













