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Valencia, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66615. It stands on Ensign Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle.

Valencia within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

66 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Valencia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17217
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County219
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service200
19 June 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service174
15 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County95
11 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service8824
7 May 2017Smokingunder an acreShawnee County7361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valencia in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2008LightningValencia1 hurtA 15-year-old girl was struck by lightning when a bolt hit near her home, traveled through the steel plumbing, and into the shower nozzle. The girl was taking a shower at the time she was struck. A single indentation was evident on the girl's knee.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindValencia-Measured by a personal weather station.
May 2025HailValencia-Half dollar size hail north of Dover.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindValencia-Report from mping of three inch diameter tree branches down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValencia-Home weather station measured 58 mph gust.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindValencia-Personal weather station.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindValencia-Report of 70 mph wind gust.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindValencia-Report from NWS employee.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindValencia-Estimated 60-70 mph winds.
June 2017HailValencia-Very heavy rainfall and winds near 55 mph were also reported.
September 2016Flash FloodValencia-Flooding reported in the 3000 block of Auburn Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindValencia-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindValencia-Trees were snapped or uprooted.
May 2013HailValencia-Mostly quarters and ping pong ball size. There were a few golf balls.
May 2013HailValencia-Delayed report.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindValencia-Signifigant microburst occurred across portions of Topeka. Roof damaged at 21st and Wanamaker Road. Power lines and light pole were snapped at 29th and Gage as well as large tree limbs down. Shingles blown off of houses and 3 inche tree limbs down at 29th and Auburn Road. Large tree down, roof removed from barnd, and power lines down near 23rd and Croco Road.
May 2019HailValencia-no account filed
August 2015HailValencia-no account filed
May 2013HailValencia-no account filed
May 2011HailValencia-no account filed
November 2003HailValencia-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindValencia-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindValencia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Silver Lake2.0 miles20
Willard3.6 miles19
Kiro4.4 miles20
Rossville5.6 miles19
Grove6.2 miles19
Menoken6.4 miles20
Dover8.5 miles16
Topeka10.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484864. 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.