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South Mound, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. The Survey maps it on the South Mound quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

South Mound within Neosho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of South Mound between 2015 and 2018, burning about 145 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/undetermined8
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1180405
19 April 2018Other causes2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018029
9 March 2018Smoking3.0 acresKansas Forest Service180309
3 March 2018Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180303
20 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLabette County22
2 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLabette County17
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service16015
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service16013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Mound in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2000Tornado (F0)South Mound$25,000The same tornado that caused major damage in Parsons, the twister clipped southeast Neosho County where it destroyed a hay barn and blew out the windows of a house.
April 2005Tornado (F1)South Mound$15,000One frame house was partially unroofed and one barn destroyed. Tornado crossed the Neosho/Crawford county line, 5 miles southeast of St. Paul. The tornado lifted one mile east of the Neosho/Crawford county line.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Mound$1,000Shingles were blown off a few homes.
August 2016FloodSouth Mound-Major flooding was reported near Parsons Lake, where barricades were placed at 30th and Lyon Roads as well as 40th and Kiowa.
May 2013Flash FloodSouth Mound-Several county roads were reported as under water and impassable.
June 2000Tornado (F0)South Mound-A brief touchdown in an open field.
April 2026HailSouth Mound-no account filed
May 2013HailSouth Mound-no account filed
June 2011HailSouth Mound-no account filed
June 2011HailSouth Mound-no account filed
June 2011HailSouth Mound-no account filed
May 2011HailSouth Mound-no account filed
February 2011HailSouth Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Hayden1.8 miles19
Saint Paul6.4 miles21
Galesburg7.3 miles19
Erie9.1 miles21
Urbana12.3 miles20
Shaw12.3 miles19
Thayer13.4 miles19
Rollin15.2 miles19

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 South MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17299914The 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 469698. 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.