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Penokee, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Millbrook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67642. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Penokee quadrangle. It stands 2,224 feet above sea level.

Penokee within Graham County

On record in Penokee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Penokee in 2015, burning about 1,016 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/undetermined2
Other causes1

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
11 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined765 acresKansas Forest Service015-004
6 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service015-003
18 October 2015Other causes251 acresKansas Forest Service015-018

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penokee in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 22 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2023FloodPenokee$5,000Dispatch reported the Brush Creek is out of its banks and flooding areas along county road M, as well as areas that intersect the creek on county roads 210 through 240.
May 2023FloodPenokee$5,000Flooding of road and property just east of Penokee.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindPenokee$5,000A quarter to half the shingles were peeled off the roof by the wind.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPenokee$3,000Chicken houses flattened and power lines down in the northwest part of the county. Time of event estimated fro Doppler radar.
May 2023Flash FloodPenokee$1,000Dispatch reported the area around county roads L and 200 were washed out due to heavy rain.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPenokee$1,000Large tree branches estimated at four inches in diameter were snapped off trees on the property as a thunderstorm moved over the town of Penokee, Kansas.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPenokee$1,000Large tree branches estimated to be up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off a healthy tree as a storm moved over the town of Penokee, Kansas.
June 2011HailPenokee$1,000Hail broke windows on the west side of the house.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Mesonet station Keith Spraying measured a 59 mph wind gust.
June 2016HailPenokee-Hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter fell for about 15 minutes.
July 2014HailPenokee-Time of report estimated from Doppler radar.
April 2014HailPenokee-Heavy rain accompanied pea sized hail before the size of hail increased to the size of quarters.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Spotter estimated 75 to 80 mph winds.
October 2013HailPenokee-The spotter also reported hail covering the ground.
April 2012HailPenokee-Spotter reported that the ground was white with hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPenokee-The Coop observer estimated peak wind gusts to be 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPenokee-The spotter reported peak winds estimated at 60 mph.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Several tree branches were broke and small trees bent over.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Power lines down on highway 24.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Several 1-inch tree limbs down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPenokee-Four-inch tree limbs down.
September 1997HailPenokee-Hail accompanied by 40 to 45 mph wind.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPenokee-no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindPenokee-no account filed
June 2009HailPenokee-no account filed
July 2009HailPenokee-no account filed
June 2008HailPenokee-no account filed
June 2008HailPenokee-no account filed
April 2008HailPenokee-no account filed
May 2007HailPenokee-no account filed
May 2006HailPenokee-no account filed
June 2004HailPenokee-no account filed
June 2003HailPenokee-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPenokee-no account filed
June 1999HailPenokee-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPenokee-no account filed
June 1999HailPenokee-no account filed
May 1998HailPenokee-no account filed
May 1996HailPenokee-no account filed
June 1996HailPenokee-no account filed
May 1995HailPenokee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Morland5.5 miles7
Hill City7.0 miles14
Smithfield11.9 miles13
Saint Peter12.7 miles7
Togo12.9 miles13
Roscoe14.0 miles13
Bogue15.1 miles13
Nicodemus19.1 miles13

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 PenokeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7164529The 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 472354. 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.