Stippville, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66725. The Survey maps it on the Columbus quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1918 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
62 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Stippville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Cherokee County | 221 |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cherokee County | 234 |
| 27 July 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0041 |
| 24 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cherokee County | 168 |
| 24 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cherokee County | 166 |
| 15 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 168 |
| 14 June 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cherokee County | 160 |
| 11 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 162 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stippville in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stippville | $5,000 | A barn was reported damaged. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stippville | $5,000 | A barn was blown down. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Stippville | - | A CoCoRAHS report of half dollar sized hail 3.6 miles north of Columbus, Kansas. |
| July 2024 | Heavy Rain | Stippville | - | A CoCoRaHS station in Columbus measured a 24-hour rainfall total of 4.89 inches. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Stippville | - | Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Stippville | - | Portion of Northwest 10th Street was flooded and impassable. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Stippville | - | Highway 7 just north of Columbus was closed due to flooding. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Stippville | - | Highway 37 near the Spring River was flooded. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Stippville | - | State Highway 7 north of Columbus was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Stippville | - | The emergency manager reported flooding near Bethlehem Road between 10th and 20th streets and along 90th Road West near the Neosho River. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stippville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Stippville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Stippville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Stippville | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Stippville | - | 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.
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 Stippville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18385603 | 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 484450. 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.










