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Perth, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Downs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67152. The Survey maps it on the Perth quadrangle.

Perth within Sumner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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 Perth between 2015 and 2019, burning about 98 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
15 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1529
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1610
24 March 2018Arson/incendiarism60 acresKansas Forest Service1815
25 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresSumner County1706
31 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service30311
29 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service21213
15 October 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service897

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

48 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perth in 48 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 32 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 1997Tornado (F2)Perth$1,850,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPerth$20,000Two 40-foot galvanized aluminum grain bins were blown over.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindPerth$10,000Several power poles were downed.
June 2010Flash FloodPerth$100A skywarn spotter reported Kansas Highway 81 and 90th Street south were impassible.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Perth-Brief tornado touchdown in an open field.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPerth-A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2009HailPerth-Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPerth-Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser.
May 2009HailPerth-The hail was mostly pea size but a few were as large as quarter size.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindPerth-Heavy amounts of dime size hail occurred with the wind.
May 2008HailPerth-The hail occurred with 60 mph winds.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Perth-A brief tornado in open country that caused no damage.
April 2026HailPerth-no account filed
May 2016HailPerth-no account filed
May 2016HailPerth-no account filed
April 2015HailPerth-no account filed
April 2015HailPerth-no account filed
May 2013HailPerth-no account filed
March 2012HailPerth-no account filed
May 2011HailPerth-no account filed
March 2011HailPerth-no account filed
April 2009HailPerth-no account filed
August 2009HailPerth-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
May 2008HailPerth-no account filed
May 2008HailPerth-no account filed
May 2008HailPerth-no account filed
May 2008HailPerth-no account filed
June 2008HailPerth-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
July 2008HailPerth-no account filed
March 2003HailPerth-no account filed
May 2002HailPerth-no account filed
May 2001HailPerth-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
June 2000HailPerth-no account filed
June 2000HailPerth-no account filed
June 2000HailPerth-no account filed
June 2000HailPerth-no account filed
June 2000HailPerth-no account filed
April 1999HailPerth-no account filed
April 1999HailPerth-no account filed
May 1999HailPerth-no account filed
April 1998HailPerth-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPerth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Corbin3.9 miles19
Rome6.1 miles13
Mayfield6.1 miles19
Roland6.8 miles14
Wellington9.4 miles13
Drury9.7 miles13
South Haven10.0 miles13
Milan10.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 470305. 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.