BlockWinifred, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66427. It stands on Perkins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beattie quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Beattie quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Winifred between 2015 and 2020, burning about 120 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800006 |
| 17 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150017 |
| 16 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winifred in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winifred | - | Measured at mesonet station ur408, 5.5 miles northwest of Frankfort. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Winifred | - | Rain amounts from the morning's storms totaled nearly 5 inches at a landfill near Winifred, 3.5 inches at Frankfort, and just about an inch in Lillis. Water pooled briefly at the landfill, but quickly subsided when the rain ended. No roads were closed because of the heavy rain. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Winifred | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winifred | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Winifred | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winifred | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Winifred | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484340. 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.