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Vinland, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66006. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin City quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Vinland within Douglas County

On record in Vinland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Vinland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 471 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service51
28 April 2018Arson/incendiarism15 acresKansas Forest Service29
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service163
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service161
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service88
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service134
9 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service27

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinland in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindVinland$3,000Fiberglass roofs over a porch and car port were torn off. A 28 foot fifth wheel mobile home was blown off cement blocks and moved from 3 to 5 feet.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindVinland$2,000Strong winds destroyed a wooden storage barn.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindVinland$2,000Strong winds blew down a 45 inch diameter tree on a porch. Five young trees were uprooted as well. A wooded porch roof was torn off.
July 2024FloodVinland-County roads 2100 E and 1000 N flooded.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindVinland-Power lines were reported across the road.
March 2017HailVinland-Hail report received via social media.
May 2017HailVinland-Wind gusts were also reported to be 50 to 55 mph.
August 2017Flash FloodVinland-Delayed report of a water rescue.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindVinland-A barn expected to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places was destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds. The barn was nearly 100 years old, and was built from a kit from the Sears, Roebucks & Company. Items within the barn were also moved and damaged by the strong winds. The building had recently undergone improvements to make the barn more stable.
June 2008Flash FloodVinland-Six inches of flowing water was reported over the intersection of Road 1061 and 458.
May 2012HailVinland-no account filed
April 2007Funnel CloudVinland-no account filed
June 1998HailVinland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Sibleyville3.2 miles19
Baldwin City4.5 miles17
Pleasant Grove4.8 miles18
Clearfield4.8 miles18
Black Jack6.1 miles18
Broken Arrow Park7.0 miles19
Hesper7.0 miles21
Noria7.6 miles19

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 VinlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7932621The 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 479519. 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.