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Pearl, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67431. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle.

Pearl within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Pearl between 2015 and 2018, burning about 211 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDickinson County18
16 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service13
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service3637
17 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service4136
1 March 2017Debris and open burning200 acresDickinson County3513
8 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service4
19 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service150006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pearl: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Woodbine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2025HailPearl-Report of ping pong ball size hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPearl-Estimated wind gusts.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindPearl-Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter blown down, and dime to penny sized hail.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Pearl-According to EM who was following the tornado, it stayed in rural areas of Dickinson county damaging trees and power lines. The damage track was sporadic indicating that the circulation may have lifted briefly along its path.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPearl-A wooden ticket booth at the ballpark was blown over, and 3 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2017HailPearl-no account filed
June 2011HailPearl-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPearl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Navarre5.0 miles15
Enterprise5.2 miles17
Woodbine5.9 miles15
Lyona6.3 miles15
Detroit7.0 miles17
Shady Brook8.4 miles15
Chapman8.4 miles17
Abilene10.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484794. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.