BlockQuincy, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Quincy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66870. It stands on West Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quincy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Quincy between 2003 and 2018, burning about 275 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 | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Woodson County | not named |
| 20 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 121 |
| 4 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Woodson County | not named |
| 13 April 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 130 acres | Woodson County | not named |
| 9 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 30 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 50 acres | Woodson County | not named |
| 16 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Woodson County | not named |
| 16 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Woodson County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quincy in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Quincy | $100 | The Greenwood County Emergency Manager reported water flowing over Highway 54, one mile west of the Greenwood/Woodson county line. |
| April 2014 | Flood | Quincy | $100 | Water was reported over US highway 54 near the rest area. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF2) | Quincy | - | The damage survey revealed an EF2 tornado with an estimated peak wind speed of 118 mph occurred south of Virgil. There was damage to a farmstead to a large outbuilding that was ripped from its sturdy foundation and had bent steel purlins. Several large trees were snapped and uprooted. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Quincy | - | US-54 was closed near the Greenwood/Woodson County Line. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Quincy | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474454. 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.