BlockPurcell, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66041. The Survey maps it on the Denton quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.
On record in Purcell
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
St. Mary's Catholic Churchlisted 2001
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Denton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Purcell between 2015 and 2020, burning about 182 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 burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018019 |
| 27 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018026 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015013 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015009 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015012 |
| 6 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Doniphan County | 2017012 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Doniphan County | 2017015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Purcell in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Purcell | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. A childrens slide was blown 50 feet, and tree limbs were reported down. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Purcell | - | Nickel-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm a mile northeast of Purcell. |
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 Purcell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15269311 | 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 473266. 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.