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Wauneta, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67024. It stands on Shanghai Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Vale East quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Wauneta within Chautauqua County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wauneta between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,396 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service255
8 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minor2,400 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChautauqua County1722
13 April 2017Debris and open burning80 acresChautauqua County380
7 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use75 acresKansas Forest Service220
31 March 2017Debris and open burning200 acresChautauqua County375
26 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 February 2017Debris and open burning1,600 acresChautauqua County21117

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauneta in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 4 hail, 3 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWauneta$5,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWauneta$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailWauneta-no account filed
May 2008HailWauneta-no account filed
May 2003HailWauneta-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWauneta-no account filed
July 1994HailWauneta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Layton2.6 miles14
Gibbs3.3 miles13
Osro4.4 miles14
Hewins5.2 miles14
Rogers5.9 miles13
Cedar Vale6.4 miles14
Elgin9.3 miles14
Cloverdale9.7 miles13

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 WaunetaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14689982The 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 484426. 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.