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Vliets, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Noble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66544. It stands on North Fork Black Vermillion River. The Survey maps it on the Vermillion quadrangle.

Vliets within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Vliets between 2015 and 2020, burning about 399 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
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 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service3
31 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
21 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism40 acresKansas Forest Service6
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism270 acresKansas Forest Service7
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service4
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service160003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vliets in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash 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 2007Flash FloodVliets$100,000Highway 87 closed just off highway 9 near Vliets. Water over the roadway.
May 2007FloodVliets$50,000Moderate or greater flooding vicinity of the gage on the Black Vermillion River near Frankfort. Lowland flooding with some county roads closed.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindVliets-Several outhouse buildings and power poles damaged. One house was destroyed as it slid off its foundation and one occupant inside it was injured. Estimated 80-90 mph winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVliets-Estimated wind gusts.
June 2019Flash FloodVliets-Water was flowing through the yard of the home owner.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindVliets-Barn destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2001FloodVliets-Heavy rains caused brief minor flooding near Vliets.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Sullivan3.6 miles16
Vermillion3.6 miles16
Frankfort4.5 miles14
Lillis7.5 miles15
Winifred8.7 miles14
Nolan10.6 miles15
Beattie11.1 miles14
Reedsville11.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 473203. 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.