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Pilsen, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66861. The Survey maps it on the Pilsen quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,437 feet above sea level.

Pilsen within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pilsen between 2015 and 2018, burning about 178 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service180007
29 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMarion County41
8 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMarion County17009
21 March 2015Debris and open burning67 acresKansas Forest Service6
19 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresMarion County17002
18 February 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018003
16 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service2016001
1 November 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresKansas Forest Service71

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilsen in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 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
October 1997Tornado (F0)Pilsen$100,000COMBINE FLIPPED ONTO IT'S SIDE AND ONE BARN RIPPED FROM IT'S FOUNDATION.
April 2006HailPilsen$5,000Several reports of broken or cracked wind shields and siding damage in the Pilsen area between 8 and 9 pm due to large hail. Additionally, various wheat fields were knocked down, breaking off the wheat two inches from the ground.
May 2002HailPilsen-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPilsen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Antelope4.3 miles12
Lincolnville4.5 miles12
Eastshore6.4 miles15
Lost Springs7.6 miles15
Tampa7.9 miles18
Marion8.6 miles15
Ramona8.8 miles17
Canada9.0 miles15

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 PilsenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7194513The 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 477246. 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.