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Winkler, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66554. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle.

Winkler within Riley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Winkler between 2003 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
14 September 2017Debris and open burning20 acresRiley County325
28 July 2017Debris and open burning10 acresRiley County260
29 June 2018Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service18402
11 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiley County175
29 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service18255
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18252
25 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresRiley County154
31 March 2015Debris and open burning90 acresKansas Forest Service103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winkler in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 7 hail, 4 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 2018Thunderstorm WindWinkler-Estimated wind gust.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWinkler-Six inch diameter tree limb snapped.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWinkler-Tree limbs up to 5 inches in diameter down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWinkler-A COOP observer reported a 60 mph wind.
April 2017HailWinkler-no account filed
April 2017HailWinkler-no account filed
April 2017HailWinkler-no account filed
April 2017HailWinkler-no account filed
April 2017HailWinkler-no account filed
April 2013HailWinkler-no account filed
May 2013HailWinkler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riley 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
Randolph5.2 miles19
Walsburg6.2 miles19
Lasita7.7 miles19
Leonardville8.2 miles19
Riley12.6 miles19
Bala13.4 miles19
Keats19.0 miles25
Elm Hollow Corner21.1 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484764. 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.