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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.

Pawnee Station within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

27 since 2015

Regional 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 burning11
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBourbon County120
4 April 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service151
4 April 2015Smoking20 acresKansas Forest Service150
10 April 2018Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service140
8 March 2018Debris and open burning130 acresKansas Forest Service63
8 March 2018Debris and open burning35 acresKansas Forest Service62
8 March 2015Smoking20 acresKansas Forest Service72
30 March 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service144

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2018Thunderstorm WindPawnee Station$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn near 160TH and Fern Road northwest of Pawnee Station.
April 2015HailPawnee Station-no account filed
April 2015HailPawnee Station-no account filed
February 2012HailPawnee Station-no account filed
June 2011HailPawnee Station-no account filed
March 2006HailPawnee Station-no account filed
May 2006HailPawnee Station-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindPawnee Station-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Hiattville4.5 miles22
Hollister4.9 miles20
Godfrey6.1 miles20
Ronald6.4 miles20
Edward7.6 miles20
Garland9.2 miles26
Marmaton9.3 miles20
Redfield10.6 miles19

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 StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199059The 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.