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Stuttgart, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67661. It stands on Starvation Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stuttgart quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,995 feet above sea level.

Stuttgart within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stuttgart between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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
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
22 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service2018023
22 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuttgart in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2008HailStuttgart$50,000Hail was reported on Highway 36.
July 2008HailStuttgart$50,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindStuttgart$35,000Multiple power poles were snapped on 500 Road approximately 2 miles north of Highway 36 by wind gusts estimated near 70 MPH.
July 1996HailStuttgart$20,000no account filed
May 2008HailStuttgart$10,000no account filed
October 2023Thunderstorm WindStuttgart-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a vehicle mounted anemometer located six miles east-southeast of Prairie View.
August 2009HailStuttgart-Hail accompanied by 50 to 60 mph winds.
May 2024HailStuttgart-no account filed
September 2023HailStuttgart-no account filed
May 2018HailStuttgart-no account filed
June 2010HailStuttgart-no account filed
August 1997HailStuttgart-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindStuttgart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Prairie View6.6 miles13
Phillipsburg7.6 miles13
Speed8.6 miles13
Glade11.1 miles13
Long Island11.2 miles13
Logan11.3 miles13
Gretna13.1 miles13
Woodruff13.4 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 StuttgartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1631121The 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 471923. 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.