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Swamp Angel, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Blue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66502. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Swamp Angel within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

130 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Swamp Angel between 2002 and 2020, burning about 4,268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning46
Smoking10
Fireworks8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreRiley County1674
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresPottawatomie County144
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service18505
22 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acrePottawatomie County84
8 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176025
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePottawatomie County107
4 July 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176021
3 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1169

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Swamp Angel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reichling QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swamp Angel in 18 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Tornado (F1)Swamp Angel$250,000Tornado occurred at the Elbo lake community east of Manhattan. Many large trees were damaged or blown over...powerlines were downed...a boat blown across the lake and at least four buildings sustained damage...primarily from trees falling on them.
June 2024HailSwamp Angel-Social media report.
April 2023HailSwamp Angel-Half dollar sized hail reported.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-Measured at mesonet station FW6911 Manhattan.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-Four inch diameter tree limb downed from estimated 70 mph winds.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-An 8 inch diameter tree limb was reported down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-Tree blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-A tree was blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-Winds estimated.
April 2011HailSwamp Angel-Spotter was located 3 miles east of St. Marys on highway 24. Winds estimated 40-50 mph.
June 2011Flash FloodSwamp Angel-Both Lanes of Highway 24 were under water, 3 miles west of St. George.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSwamp Angel-Power line and tree damage was reported in the eastern part of Manhattan. A street sign was also blown down in Wamego.
June 2024HailSwamp Angel-no account filed
August 2019HailSwamp Angel-no account filed
April 2013HailSwamp Angel-no account filed
May 2010HailSwamp Angel-no account filed
June 2009HailSwamp Angel-no account filed
May 2002HailSwamp Angel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Saint George3.3 miles18
Flush7.2 miles16
Wamego9.4 miles17
Louisville9.7 miles16
Westmoreland14.2 miles17
Belvue16.2 miles17
Fostoria17.0 miles20
Laclede17.4 miles16

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 Swamp AngelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7653316The 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 484778. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.