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Stickney, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67544. The Survey maps it on the Susank quadrangle. It stands 1,955 feet above sea level.

Stickney within Barton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stickney between 2015 and 2018, burning about 35 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
24 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15021
21 June 2017Smoking10 acresBarton County3
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service18010
25 February 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresBarton County2017014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stickney in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 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
September 2010Flash FloodStickney$100Water was running over Highway 281 in a few locations.
June 2024HailStickney-Mostly smaller pea sized hail but a few golf ball sized hail pieces noted.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStickney-This was an estimated wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindStickney-A spotter reported his vehicle was nearly blown off the road into a ditch.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindStickney-Reported by the public.
August 1995HailStickney-Radar estimates of four inches had fallen across Northern Barton County. Local officials reported that Highway 4 near Galatia was under water. The Blood and Deception creeks also rose above bankfull.
May 2012HailStickney-no account filed
July 2010HailStickney-no account filed
April 2001HailStickney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Millard2.9 miles13
Susank3.0 miles13
Galatia6.9 miles13
Boyd8.3 miles13
Beaver8.6 miles13
Hoisington8.7 miles13
South Hoisington9.6 miles13
Olmitz10.1 miles13

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 StickneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18385569The 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 484733. 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.