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Wilmington, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Plumb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66413. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle.

Wilmington within Wabaunsee 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

39 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington between 2007 and 2020, burning about 2,075 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service018-042
30 June 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service163
28 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service51
18 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreRiley County181
5 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service25
4 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service102
17 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service32
11 April 2015Debris and open burning165 acresKansas Forest Service115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmington in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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 1996HailWilmington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Harveyville3.1 miles16
Bradford6.8 miles16
Eskridge11.2 miles16
Keene15.3 miles16
Hessdale17.6 miles16
Vera23.4 miles16
Maple Hill23.8 miles16
Allendorph23.8 miles16

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 WilmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18395072The 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 484884. 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.