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Silkville, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Williamsburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66095. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.

Silkville within Franklin County

On record in Silkville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Silkville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 141 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
Debris and open burning13
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
6 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service66
5 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service217
5 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service25
21 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresCoffey County166
17 March 2017Debris and open burning30 acresFranklin County18
1 March 2018Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service48
8 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnderson County1755005
4 February 2017Debris and open burning20 acresOsage County19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silkville in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSilkville-Spotter reports winds around 70 mph.
May 2019Flash FloodSilkville-Water was running over Highway 33.
August 2016HailSilkville-Radar estimated time.
August 2016HailSilkville-no account filed
February 2011HailSilkville-no account filed
May 2002HailSilkville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Williamsburg2.4 miles18
Ransomville5.1 miles17
Homewood7.4 miles17
Pomona11.1 miles17
Princeton11.6 miles17
Richter12.6 miles17
Richmond12.9 miles17
B N Junction13.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484824. 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.