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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.

Stippville within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

62 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCherokee County221
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCherokee County234
27 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0041
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCherokee County168
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCherokee County166
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service168
14 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCherokee County160
11 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service162

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindStippville$5,000A barn was reported damaged.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindStippville$5,000A barn was blown down.
June 2025HailStippville-A CoCoRAHS report of half dollar sized hail 3.6 miles north of Columbus, Kansas.
July 2024Heavy RainStippville-A CoCoRaHS station in Columbus measured a 24-hour rainfall total of 4.89 inches.
May 2020HailStippville-Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing.
May 2015Flash FloodStippville-Portion of Northwest 10th Street was flooded and impassable.
July 2013Flash FloodStippville-Highway 7 just north of Columbus was closed due to flooding.
March 2012FloodStippville-Highway 37 near the Spring River was flooded.
September 2009Flash FloodStippville-State Highway 7 north of Columbus was closed due to flooding.
August 2009Flash FloodStippville-The emergency manager reported flooding near Bethlehem Road between 10th and 20th streets and along 90th Road West near the Neosho River.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindStippville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree.
August 2015HailStippville-no account filed
June 2011HailStippville-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudStippville-no account filed
March 2007HailStippville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Turck0.7 miles20
Skidmore1.3 miles20
Mackie2.2 miles20
Cokedale3.4 miles19
Columbus3.7 miles20
Scammon3.9 miles20
Roseland4.1 miles20
Carona4.3 miles20

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 StippvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18385603The 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.