BlockWonsevu, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66843. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wonsevu quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1898 USGS Cottonwood Falls quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Wonsevu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Wonsevu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wonsevu between 2015 and 2020, burning about 115 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 90 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 17 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wonsevu in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wonsevu | $50,000 | A garage picked up and fell on a car. A barn was blown down which inflicted minor damage to a residence. A second residence was also damaged in the area. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Wonsevu | $10,000 | Outbuildings damaged. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Wonsevu | - | A COOP observer reported 3.35 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Wonsevu | - | Water was reported over the road and barricaded. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wonsevu | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Wonsevu | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Point | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Clements | 10.4 miles | 13 | |
| Matfield Green | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bazaar | 15.1 miles | 12 | |
| Elmdale | 16.8 miles | 13 | |
| Neva | 19.0 miles | 14 | |
| Cottonwood Falls | 19.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gladstone | 19.8 miles | 16 |
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 Wonsevu | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8032101 | The 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 477793. 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.