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Richland, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Monmouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66524. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Richland within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

69 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 996 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service56
23 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service39
23 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee County628
10 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County579
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service35
11 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County383

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 17 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 9 hail, 7 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
April 2003Thunderstorm WindRichland$4,000Strong winds damaged a barn in the Richland area.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Richland$1,000A brief tornado touched down in extreme southern Shawnee County on the evening of July 4th. The tornado lasted less than 1 minute and caused only minor damage. The tops of some trees were damaged, as was a tin outbuilding near Richland.
June 2021HailRichland-Nickel sized hail and winds up to 30 mph reported.
June 2016HailRichland-Time estimated by radar.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRichland-Two power poles down at the intersection of 105th and Stubbs Road.
April 2011HailRichland-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
March 2006HailRichland-no account filed
April 2006HailRichland-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
July 2005HailRichland-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
August 2003HailRichland-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
August 2003HailRichland-no account filed
August 2000HailRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Berryton6.3 miles18
Watson7.3 miles16
Lindbloom Park8.2 miles16
Wakarusa8.3 miles18
Cullen Village9.6 miles18
Pauline9.7 miles18
Terra Heights10.0 miles18
Mathews Park10.0 miles18

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 RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7330603The 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 484928. 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.