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.
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
Finney County Point of Rockslisted 2013
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Garden quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Pierceville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Finney County | 475 |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Finney County | 470 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 448 |
| 26 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Finney County | 524 |
| 24 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Finney County | 520 |
| 24 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Finney County | 519 |
| 13 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Finney County | 499 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | $65,000 | Pivot sprinkler was destroyed...many trees were blown down and 11 power poles were blown down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | $20,000 | Two mobile homes blown over and windows blown out others. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | $9,000 | A 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 1993 | Hail | Pierceville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | $500 | Window blown out of a house. |
| February 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Pierceville | - | Photos were sent into the NWS on social media of the landspout tornado. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | A large cottonwood tree was blown down by the high wind. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | A semi truck was blown over by the high wind. |
| October 2017 | Hail | Pierceville | - | The hail stones were jagged. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pierceville | - | Baseball to softball sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pierceville | - | Hail was from tennis to baseball sized. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | estimated wind of 50 to 70 mph. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | Measured by Doppler on Wheels. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Pierceville | - | Wheat was shredded. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | Shingles blown off and had 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Pierceville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Pierceville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7191851 | The 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.






