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Spring Hill, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Spring Hill City. It lies in ZIP code area 66083. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle. 4,932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Johnson County

On record in Spring Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

125 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 2006 and 2018, burning about 426 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 were 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning45
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
29 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2340214
22 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreJohnson Countynot named
16 August 2007Natural1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2220104
10 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
3 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County1840202

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill4 hurtSevere thunderstorms moved across Johnson County. A 70 mph wind gust was observed at the intersection of U.S. Route 169 and 199th Street, and a 65 mph wind gust occurred near Stanley. Gusts up to 60 mph were recorded at the New Century Airport in Olathe, at the intersection of Interstate 435 and Johnson Drive. Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and limbs in Gardner and Shawnee. In Overland Park, a tree fell on a house and car, and a 60-foot tree was knocked down at 92nd and Switzer. Several streets were completely blocked by downed trees and limbs. A two-foot diameter tree also fell onto a house in Merriam, and trees, limbs, and power lines were downed in Spring Hill.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$50,000Trees and limbs were blown down from Olathe to the northern portion of Spring Hill.
September 1993HailSpring Hill$50,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$45,000Fire truck blown off road. Three semi trailers overturned. One of which crushed an automobile. Radio tower snapped and power lines were down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$2,000Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and wind damage in and around Spring Hill. There were reports of a tornado in this area, but no ground-truth evidence could be found. There may have been a funnel aloft, as there were additional reports to the east into Cass county, Missouri.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$500A power line was reported down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Downed wires near Renner Road east of Spring Hill.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Fire and rescue reported 60 mph wind.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A power pole was snapped from 60 to 70 mph wind gusts at the intersection of Race and Hale Street in Spring Hill, Kansas.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A tree was down and a power outage occurred near Spring Hill.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A large piece of plywood was embedded into the side of a house. Wind speed was derived from nearby reports of 75 mph winds and significant damage in other nearby areas.
July 2006Flash FloodSpring Hill-Woodland Road closed due to high water from very heavy rains.
August 2006Flash FloodSpring Hill-199th Street at Ridgeview is closed due to high water.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs 12 to 18 inches in diameter at the USD 230 Board of Education offices.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Public reports were received of an 18-inch diameter evergreen tree downed, and other tree damage. Also, lawn furniture was thrown up into trees by thunderstorm winds.
March 2021HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2017HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2017HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2017HailSpring Hill-no account filed
September 2014HailSpring Hill-no account filed
April 2011HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2011HailSpring Hill-no account filed
April 2008HailSpring Hill-no account filed
June 2008HailSpring Hill-no account filed
June 2008HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2007HailSpring Hill-no account filed
March 2006HailSpring Hill-no account filed
August 2005HailSpring Hill-no account filed
April 2003HailSpring Hill-no account filed
May 2003HailSpring Hill-no account filed
April 2001HailSpring Hill-no account filed
April 2001HailSpring Hill-no account filed
June 1996HailSpring Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Ocheltree1.8 miles20
Bonita4.7 miles20
Clare6.3 miles20
Gardner7.1 miles19
Aubry8.4 miles20
Stilwell9.1 miles20
Morse9.2 miles20
Olathe9.6 miles26

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 Spring HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2371276The 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 479558. 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.