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Woodlawn, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Capioma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66534. The Survey maps it on the Woodlawn quadrangle.

Woodlawn within Nemaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 2002 and 2020, burning about 690 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
13 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2017Debris and open burning120 acresNemaha County387
11 April 2017Debris and open burning30 acresNemaha County388
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresKansas Forest Service362
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresKansas Forest Service363
31 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined140 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service341

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 1997HailWoodlawn$40,000no account filed
July 1997HailWoodlawn$40,000no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F1)Woodlawn$20,000no account filed
July 1997HailWoodlawn$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-This is a delayed Report. Spotter called in with tree damage with unknown diameter.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-Sixty mile per hour wind gusts were estimated by a spotter with a severe thunderstorm.
June 2009HailWoodlawn-This was a delayed report. The hail measured approximately one hour after it fell. It was also time estimated.
July 2016HailWoodlawn-no account filed
September 2010HailWoodlawn-no account filed
September 2010HailWoodlawn-no account filed
September 2010HailWoodlawn-no account filed
June 2009HailWoodlawn-no account filed
May 2009HailWoodlawn-no account filed
May 1998HailWoodlawn-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-no account filed
July 1997HailWoodlawn-no account filed
August 1997HailWoodlawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Capioma2.4 miles17
Granada5.8 miles17
Oneida6.8 miles17
Kelly8.0 miles14
Sabetha8.9 miles17
Goff9.0 miles17
Berwick10.4 miles17
Wetmore10.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 472968. 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.