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Walker, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Herzog Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67674. The Survey maps it on the Walker quadrangle. It stands 1,942 feet above sea level.

Walker within Ellis County

On record in Walker

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 1 record

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

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Walker between 2015 and 2020, burning about 476 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
25 September 2017Naturalunder an acreEllis County017-272
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0154
8 August 2018Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service227
7 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0091
22 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use25 acresRussell County19
20 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresRussell County18
13 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKansas Forest Service15-0094
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service51918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walker in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 1 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
June 1995HailWalker$15,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWalker$5,000Power lines blown down...few trees uprooted.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalker-Mesonet Station UP853 Walker.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindWalker-Mesonet site at Walker on I-70.
September 2021Heavy RainWalker-Rainfall of 2.31 inches was observed.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWalker-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWalker-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWalker-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 MPH.
July 2010Heavy RainWalker-Rainfall of 2.45 inches fell during this period.
July 2008Heavy RainWalker-Rainfall of 4.40 fell.
September 2008Heavy RainWalker-The observer received 4 inches of rain from 600 PM until 730 PM.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Walker-This small tornado was in contact with the ground for just a short preiod. Nothing was hit.
July 1998Flash FloodWalker-Water was three feet over the road.
June 1997HailWalker-Siding damaged and windows broken.
May 1995HailWalker-Wind of 70 to 80 mph with the hail. A grain bin was destroyed by the winds while numerous cars and homes were damaged by the hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
July 2016HailWalker-no account filed
May 2015HailWalker-no account filed
May 2015HailWalker-no account filed
June 2014HailWalker-no account filed
September 2012HailWalker-no account filed
May 2011HailWalker-no account filed
July 2008HailWalker-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
September 2008Heavy RainWalker-no account filed
May 2006HailWalker-no account filed
June 2006HailWalker-no account filed
May 1997HailWalker-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWalker-no account filed
May 1995HailWalker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Victoria3.9 miles14
Emmeram7.0 miles15
Catharine8.5 miles15
Toulon8.8 miles14
Munjor10.7 miles16
Pfeifer12.0 miles14
Hays13.3 miles16
Schoenchen17.2 miles14

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 WalkerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7962187The 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 475301. 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.