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Upland, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fragrant Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67431. The Survey maps it on the Upland quadrangle.

Upland within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

27 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Upland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 465 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
21 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresDickinson County170008
9 July 2017Smoking1.0 acresGeary County88
4 July 2018Fireworks2.0 acresKansas Forest Service111
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service12096
19 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresDickinson County170007
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresDickinson County170006
13 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDickinson County170005
28 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service000XXXX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upland in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2003HailUpland$200,000Large hail damaged buildings and destroyed some crops near Upland.
September 2001Tornado (F1)Upland$5,000A tornado touched down just south of Upland and moved northeast over mostly open country doing some power line damage. The tornado crossed into Geary county at 4:34 pm.
May 2024HailUpland-Softball size hail near Upland.
May 2024HailUpland-EM report of three inch hail in Upland.
May 2024HailUpland-Report of softball hail 7 miles north of Moonlight. Exact location estimated from radar.
May 2024HailUpland-Report from southwest of Milford Lake.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindUpland-Trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindUpland-Estimated gusts of 70 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindUpland-Estimated 60-70 mph wind gusts.
April 2022HailUpland-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindUpland-Wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
September 2020HailUpland-Delayed report via photo in email. Time estimate based on radar.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindUpland-Tree limbs were broken, the sizes were unknown.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindUpland-A member of the public reported that a few small tree limbs around 2 inches in diameter were broken.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindUpland-Four inch diameter limbs blown down.
May 2019HailUpland-no account filed
July 2012HailUpland-no account filed
May 2007HailUpland-no account filed
May 2003HailUpland-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindUpland-no account filed
April 2001HailUpland-no account filed
June 2001HailUpland-no account filed
September 2001HailUpland-no account filed
September 2001HailUpland-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindUpland-no account filed
June 1996HailUpland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Sutphen3.4 miles15
Moonlight7.4 miles15
Chapman8.1 miles17
Buckeye8.4 miles14
Detroit11.9 miles17
Talmage13.5 miles15
Enterprise13.8 miles17
Abilene15.7 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 UplandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7898331The 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 476490. 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.