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Thrall, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Janesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66853. The Survey maps it on the Thrall quadrangle.

Thrall within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Thrall between 2015 and 2020, burning about 6,424 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined900 acresGreenwood County270TH ROAD
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,500 acresGreenwood CountyHAMLITON
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service55
11 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
18 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresLyon County017-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thrall in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindThrall$25,000Wind gusts estimated at nearly 100 mph caused damage to area trees and barns.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindThrall$10,000Several power poles were tilted over by severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2019FloodThrall$100Emergency manager reported water over county roads to the west of Hamilton. Roads were impassible.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindThrall-Wind gusts were estimated to be around 50 to 60 mph. Dime sized hail occurred as well.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindThrall-This was a measured wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindThrall-This was a measured wind gust.
September 2021Heavy RainThrall-A mesonet site reported 5.04 inches of rainfall.
July 2020Heavy RainThrall-A 24 hour rainfall amount of 3.61 inches.
July 2020Heavy RainThrall-This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.47 inches.
May 2018HailThrall-no account filed
April 2015Heavy RainThrall-no account filed
April 2003HailThrall-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindThrall-no account filed
May 2002HailThrall-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindThrall-no account filed
April 1994HailThrall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Burkett3.7 miles16
Lapland4.2 miles14
Teterville5.7 miles16
Kenbro8.2 miles16
Hamilton8.6 miles14
Utopia9.3 miles14
Ivanpah11.5 miles14
Bisbee11.8 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 ThrallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199125The 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 478053. 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.