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Pierceville, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pierceville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67868. The Survey maps it on the Pierceville quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,762 feet above sea level.

Pierceville within Finney County

On record in Pierceville

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

7 surveys from 12 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

17 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Pierceville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 763 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
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
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFinney County475
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreFinney County470
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresKansas Forest Service448
26 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFinney County524
24 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFinney County520
24 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFinney County519
13 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFinney County499

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Finney County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pierceville in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 17 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
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville$65,000Pivot sprinkler was destroyed...many trees were blown down and 11 power poles were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPierceville$20,000Two mobile homes blown over and windows blown out others.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville$9,000A fully loaded semi truck trailer w/o wheels, used as a storage shed, was moved 10 feet. Shingles and the felt pad were completely stripped off a house. Ten additional power poles were blown down.
September 1993HailPierceville$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPierceville$500Window blown out of a house.
February 2024Tornado (EFU)Pierceville-Photos were sent into the NWS on social media of the landspout tornado.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPierceville-A large cottonwood tree was blown down by the high wind.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPierceville-A semi truck was blown over by the high wind.
October 2017HailPierceville-The hail stones were jagged.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPierceville-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2011HailPierceville-Baseball to softball sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailPierceville-Hail was from tennis to baseball sized.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPierceville-estimated wind of 50 to 70 mph.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPierceville-Measured by Doppler on Wheels.
May 1999HailPierceville-Wheat was shredded.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville-Shingles blown off and had 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2011HailPierceville-no account filed
April 2006HailPierceville-no account filed
April 2006HailPierceville-no account filed
August 2006HailPierceville-no account filed
July 2005HailPierceville-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
May 2001HailPierceville-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
August 1999HailPierceville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
September 1998HailPierceville-no account filed
May 1998HailPierceville-no account filed
May 1998HailPierceville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPierceville-no account filed
May 1995HailPierceville-no account filed
May 1993HailPierceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Finney 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
Mansfield5.7 miles14
Plymell11.3 miles13
Garden City12.2 miles14
Quinby15.4 miles14
Rodkey17.7 miles10
Holcomb18.2 miles14
Lowe19.9 miles10
Ritchal21.4 miles8

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 PiercevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7191851The 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 471624. 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.