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Wayside, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 67301. It lies near Berry Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tyro quadrangle.

Wayside within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Wayside between 2015 and 2020, burning about 816 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKansas Forest Service1530034
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1530033
17 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMontgomery County1730026
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMontgomery County1730025
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1470095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayside in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 1 hail, 1 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWayside-no account filed
May 1998HailWayside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Bolton4.2 miles18
Havana4.3 miles18
Jefferson6.0 miles17
Tyro6.6 miles17
Blake6.8 miles18
Caney8.5 miles18
Owen9.2 miles17
Dearing9.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 469242. 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.