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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Russell quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Susank quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15021 |
| 21 June 2017 | Smoking | 10 acres | Barton County | 3 |
| 8 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18010 |
| 25 February 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Barton County | 2017014 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Stickney | $100 | Water was running over Highway 281 in a few locations. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Stickney | - | Mostly smaller pea sized hail but a few golf ball sized hail pieces noted. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | This was an estimated wind gust. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | A spotter reported his vehicle was nearly blown off the road into a ditch. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Reported by the public. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Stickney | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millard | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Susank | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Galatia | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Boyd | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Beaver | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hoisington | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| South Hoisington | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| Olmitz | 10.1 miles | 13 |
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 Stickney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18385569 | The 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.





