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Shady Brook, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67449. It stands on Lime Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herington quadrangle.

Shady Brook within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

38 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Shady Brook between 2001 and 2020, burning about 261 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
1 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
11 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
26 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service2018085
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDickinson County2017076
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning16 acresDickinson Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Brook in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindShady Brook-Metal building damaged.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindShady Brook-Two houses were damaged just south of 800 and Union Road, possibly by a tornado.
September 2019HailShady Brook-no account filed
June 2011HailShady Brook-no account filed
June 2011HailShady Brook-no account filed
June 2009HailShady Brook-no account filed
August 2007HailShady Brook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Woodbine4.1 miles15
Herington5.2 miles15
Hope6.0 miles16
Navarre7.6 miles15
Rishel7.7 miles16
Pearl8.4 miles15
Lyona9.0 miles15
Jacobs9.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484918. 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.