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Piedmont, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67122. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,227 feet above sea level.

Piedmont within Greenwood County

On record in Piedmont

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

8 surveys from 14 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

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Piedmont between 2002 and 2018, burning about 11,181 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/undetermined14
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
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,600 acresGreenwood CountyP RD AND 10TH
31 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresGreenwood Countynot named
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresKansas Forest Service1500042
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service68
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service72
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service54
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service57
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service51

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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 Piedmont: 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
Piedmont QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piedmont in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 2003Tornado (F0)Piedmont$20,000Semi blown off highway.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPiedmont$8,000The roof of a barn was blown off, and trees of undetermined size were damaged.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-There were several trees uprooted near Piedmont along US 400.
May 2020HailPiedmont-The hail ranged from dime to quarter size.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2014HailPiedmont-The ground was covered with quarter sized hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-Law enforcement reported the gust.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-An amateur radio volunteer reported the gust.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-Large limbs downed.
May 2019HailPiedmont-no account filed
May 2014HailPiedmont-no account filed
June 2011HailPiedmont-no account filed
July 2009HailPiedmont-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPiedmont-no account filed
May 2004HailPiedmont-no account filed
May 2001HailPiedmont-no account filed
June 2000HailPiedmont-no account filed
August 2000HailPiedmont-no account filed
June 1996HailPiedmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Blodgett5.2 miles15
Severy7.3 miles19
Climax10.0 miles19
Landergin (historical)11.5 miles14
Belleview (historical)12.8 miles14
Reece12.8 miles14
Eureka14.4 miles14
Sallyards15.6 miles14

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 PiedmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7191480The 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 475057. 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.