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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Upland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | 170008 |
| 9 July 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Geary County | 88 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 111 |
| 2 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 12096 |
| 19 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | 170007 |
| 17 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | 170006 |
| 13 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Dickinson County | 170005 |
| 28 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 000XXXX |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Hail | Upland | $200,000 | Large hail damaged buildings and destroyed some crops near Upland. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Upland | $5,000 | A 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 2024 | Hail | Upland | - | Softball size hail near Upland. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Upland | - | EM report of three inch hail in Upland. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Upland | - | Report of softball hail 7 miles north of Moonlight. Exact location estimated from radar. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Upland | - | Report from southwest of Milford Lake. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Estimated gusts of 70 mph. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Estimated 60-70 mph wind gusts. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Upland | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Wind gust estimated at 60 mph. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Upland | - | Delayed report via photo in email. Time estimate based on radar. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Tree limbs were broken, the sizes were unknown. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | A member of the public reported that a few small tree limbs around 2 inches in diameter were broken. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Four inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Upland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7898331 | The 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.





