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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Woodlawn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Nemaha County | 387 |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Nemaha County | 388 |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 170 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 362 |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 363 |
| 31 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 140 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 341 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Hail | Woodlawn | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Woodlawn | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Woodlawn | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Woodlawn | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodlawn | - | This is a delayed Report. Spotter called in with tree damage with unknown diameter. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodlawn | - | Sixty mile per hour wind gusts were estimated by a spotter with a severe thunderstorm. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | This was a delayed report. The hail measured approximately one hour after it fell. It was also time estimated. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Woodlawn | - | 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 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.








