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Sallyards, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67045. The Survey maps it on the Rosalia quadrangle.

Sallyards within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sallyards between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,220 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined5

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
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresGreenwood County18-38
27 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresKansas Forest Service60
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service68619
8 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,700 acresGreenwood CountyD165
27 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresGreenwood County12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sallyards in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023Heavy RainSallyards-In the last 24 hours, the rainfall total was 3.75 inches. Amounts around the county ranged from 2.5 to 3.75 inches.
June 2011HailSallyards-no account filed
June 2011HailSallyards-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Belleview (historical)3.3 miles14
Reece3.6 miles14
Ivanpah5.5 miles14
Landergin (historical)9.2 miles14
Eureka11.6 miles14
Lapland12.8 miles14
Blodgett13.7 miles15
Piedmont15.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122560052The 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 474624. 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.