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Severance, Kansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66087. The Survey maps it on the Sparks quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Severance within Doniphan County

Population over time

2 figures

Severance fell from 94 to 76 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201094
202076-18 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

11 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Severance between 2015 and 2020, burning about 156 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017036
29 August 2020Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018026
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
9 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
23 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresDoniphan County2017019
18 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017015
13 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Severance in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSeverance$10,000A roof was reported to have been blown off a home. Several power poles and trees were also blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSeverance-Report from MPing of 3 inch tree limbs down or power poles damaged.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSeverance-There were a few tree limbs snapped off, which brought down some powerlines in Severance.
June 2014Flash FloodSeverance-Water flowing across 180th Rd and Highway 120.
May 2005Flash FloodSeverance-Heavy rains closed the intersection at K20 and County Road 120.
August 2005Flash FloodSeverance-Several county roads flooded due to heavy rains.
March 2006HailSeverance-no account filed
May 2003HailSeverance-no account filed
August 2000HailSeverance-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Denton2.6 miles20
Leona4.0 miles19
Bendena4.2 miles27
Moray4.2 miles23
Highland6.5 miles19
Fanning6.6 miles23
Sparks7.0 miles23
Purcell7.4 miles20

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 SeveranceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901325The 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 473004. 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.