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Waterloo, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Galesburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67111. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Waterloo within Kingman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo between 2008 and 2020, burning about 6,526 acres in total. None 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
17 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreReno County40
1 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresKingman County1461
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,400 acresKansas CountiesPRATT SANDHILLS
11 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service18
1 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
16 February 2018Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKansas Forest Service39
30 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterloo in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2002Tornado (F0)Waterloo-Occurred in open country.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWaterloo-TWO LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Midway1.1 miles14
Murdock4.6 miles13
Georgia4.9 miles14
Mount Vernon5.8 miles14
Lansdowne5.8 miles13
Varner5.8 miles14
Kingman9.4 miles14
Alameda10.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 473969. 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.