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Walsburg, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 66449. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle.

Walsburg within Riley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

37 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Walsburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 778 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
29 June 2018Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service18402
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18361
6 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18274
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18272
4 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18268
15 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service18292
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service18196

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walsburg in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWalsburg-Report of 60 mph wind gust. No damage reported.
August 2019HailWalsburg-Social media report. Size was estimated.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWalsburg-Emergency manger received a report of a barn blown down at K-77 and University Park Road.
July 2015HailWalsburg-no account filed
April 2014HailWalsburg-no account filed
June 2013HailWalsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riley 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
Leonardville3.2 miles19
Randolph3.8 miles19
Winkler6.2 miles19
Riley6.6 miles19
Lasita7.0 miles19
Bala9.3 miles19
Keats12.9 miles25
Elm Hollow Corner15.0 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484765. 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.