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Silverdale, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Silverdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67005. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Silverdale quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Silverdale within Cowley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

51 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Silverdale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 842 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Smoking2

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County1712
25 June 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresCowley County1261
25 June 2015Smoking15 acresKansas Forest Service1083
12 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCowley County1177
4 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service960
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverdale in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Silverdale$150,000Tornado moving east near Maple City caused damage to a homestead. The house and barn sustained damage to the roof. All the windows were blown out of the cars, and a horse trailer was overturned.
August 2009LightningSilverdale$100,000A rural home a few miles east of Arkansas City was destroyed by fire after being hit by lightning during the early morning hours. No one was injured. The Winfield Daily Courier contributed to this report.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindSilverdale$10,000Ten power poles and associated power lines downed.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSilverdale$5,000no account filed
April 2024Heavy RainSilverdale-Observer measured 4.75 inches of rain east of Arkansas City by seven miles in a 24 hour period in large part due to training thunderstorms during the late afternoon into the overnight hours. There was a report of 4.42 inches in Dexter too.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-The strongest winds were brief.
October 2020Heavy RainSilverdale-A total of 3.67 inches of rain was reported for the previous 24 hours.
May 2018HailSilverdale-This report came in via Mping.
April 2017HailSilverdale-The hail was nickel to quarter size.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-The winds were estimated one mile west of Silverdale.
April 2016HailSilverdale-The hail was dime to quarter sized.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-No damage was reported.
May 2016HailSilverdale-Near the town of Silverdale.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-Hail up to quarter size was also reported.
June 2011HailSilverdale-Winds of 60 mph were also reported.
May 2019HailSilverdale-no account filed
May 2018HailSilverdale-no account filed
May 2018HailSilverdale-no account filed
April 2016HailSilverdale-no account filed
May 2011HailSilverdale-no account filed
April 2011HailSilverdale-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-no account filed
June 2005HailSilverdale-no account filed
October 2005HailSilverdale-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-no account filed
May 2001HailSilverdale-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-no account filed
May 1997HailSilverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowley 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
Cameron3.6 miles13
Parkerfield5.6 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)6.0 miles13
Vinton6.0 miles13
Maple City7.2 miles13
Arkansas City7.3 miles15
Eschs (historical)8.9 miles14
Moxham9.1 miles15

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 SilverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7516663The 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 469029. 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.