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Strauss, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neosho Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66753. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCune quadrangle.

Strauss within Labette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

19 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Strauss between 2015 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2

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
13 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLabette County38
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service17
31 March 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
17 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service7
17 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-062
16 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service120
15 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-060

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strauss in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2008: 1 tornado, 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 2008Funnel CloudStrauss-There were several reports of funnel clouds near the Labette/Crawford county line along Highway 400.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Strauss-Brief event that caused tree damage.

Every storm recorded in Labette 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
Laneville2.2 miles18
Montana4.9 miles18
Brownstone5.8 miles18
Garvin8.9 miles20
Labette9.2 miles20
Winway9.2 miles19
Parsons9.3 miles19
Orchard Park10.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484471. 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.