BlockXenia, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66716. It stands on Limestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Xenia quadrangle. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Xenia between 2015 and 2019, burning about 1,502 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2015 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 275 |
| 1 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bourbon County | 223 |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Bourbon County | 200 |
| 30 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 571 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 139 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 420 |
| 23 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 115 |
| 23 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 127 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Xenia in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Xenia | $75,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a modular home near Hidden Valley Lake. The home's roof was lifted off of the home and the western walls were pushed in. In addition, several trees were toppled taking down at least one power line. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Xenia | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were reported down. |
| October 2016 | Flood | Xenia | - | Kansas Highway K-65 was closed due to flooding along the Little Osage River. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Xenia | - | One to two inches of rain fell over Bourbon County. Nearly all low lying areas that typically flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. Areas near the headwaters of the Marmaton River experiencd a quick onset of flash flooding. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Xenia | - | Five to six inches of rain fell over Bourbon County. This excessive rain caused widepsread flooding of numerous small streams, creeks, and two main stem rivers. A few specific locations that flooded include a section of Highway 31 at its intersection with the Little Osage River, a section of County Road 1198 at its intersection with the Robinson Branch of the Marmaton River, a section of 205th Street, and a section of Poplar Road. 205th Street and Poplar Road were flooded from tributaries of Mill Creek. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Xenia | - | 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.
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 Xenia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8043477 | 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 474541. 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.