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Zeandale, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Zeandale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66502. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Zeandale within Riley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Zeandale between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,116 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking5
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service18505
22 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acrePottawatomie County84
4 July 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176021
3 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176019
2 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176009
14 July 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRiley Countynot named
29 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176000
7 April 2018Fireworks1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Zeandale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mc Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zeandale in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 tornado, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindZeandale2 hurt, $25,000no account filed
March 2024HailZeandale-Report of ping pong ball size hail on Deep Creek Road south of Manhattan.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Zeandale-A storm chaser showed video of what appeared to be a brief funnel near the ground in open country north of Interstate 70. Any actual contact with the ground was brief and no damage was noted or reported. The feature lost its organization as it moved south over I-70.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindZeandale-Estimated wind gust report.
April 2016Flash FloodZeandale-Parts of K-18 is closed between Fairmont and Zeandale.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Zeandale-Law enforcement report of brief tornado in open area near river.
June 2010Flash FloodZeandale-Water rushed across Zeandale Road at the intersection of Sandy Lane near Zeandale.
June 2010Flash FloodZeandale-A car was swept off the road at Tabor Valley Road and Kaw Road. Water flowed over the road intersection out of the nearby farm fields.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Zeandale-Touchdown approximately 6 miles north of Exit 323 on I-70.
July 2015HailZeandale-no account filed
April 2011HailZeandale-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
Pillsbury Crossing2.2 miles18
Fairmont6.6 miles27
Bluemont Hill7.4 miles27
Manhattan7.9 miles27
Sunset Park9.1 miles27
Rocky Ford10.2 miles27
Eureka Lake11.3 miles25
Ogden15.2 miles25

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 ZeandaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8068204The 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 476415. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.