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Kansas, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carbon Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35549. It stands on Trinity Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carbon Hill quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Kansas within Walker County

Population over time

2 figures

Kansas fell from 226 to 180 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010226
2020180-46 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

128 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Kansas between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,089 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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
Arson/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-14
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-7
24 September 1999Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kansas in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKansas$5,000Numerous trees were blown down in and around Carbon Hill.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindKansas$2,000One large tree was blown down, and a few large limbs were knocked down, near the Kansas Community.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindKansas-Microburst winds of 90 MPH downed 150 pine trees in a swath of wind damage 200 yards wide south southwest of Nauvoo.
April 2013Tornado (EF1)Kansas-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage in northwest Walker County and have determined that the damage was due to an EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds of 86 mph. The tornado touched down approximately 3/4 of a mile southwest of Dogtown Road, near Seamore Mountain, in the Mill Creek watershed. The tornado tracked northeast and crossed Dogtown Road where it uprooted several trees. The tornado continued northeast and crossed Highway 78 and Ritter Road, where the most significant damage occurred. Dozens of trees were uprooted and one single family home had portions of its roof and roof decking removed. The tornado continued northeast and crossed Nix Road, Nauvoo Road, Jagger Road, Johnson Road, and Slick Lizzard Road. Some minor structural damage was observed along these roads along with tree damage. The tornado finally lifted northeast of Slick Lizzard Road before it crossed Highway 5. This damage could not be linked to the tornado in southern Winston County at Poplar Springs.
March 2011Flash FloodKansas-Portions of Highway 118 and Dogtown Road were closed due to flooding.
July 2011Flash FloodKansas-Several Roads were closed due to flash flooding.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindKansas-Wind gusts were estimated around 70 mph.
March 2011HailKansas-no account filed
April 2008HailKansas-no account filed
April 2008HailKansas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Carbon Hill1.5 miles11
Clarke1.6 miles11
Dogtown3.3 miles11
Eldridge3.8 miles11
Flatwood3.9 miles11
Pocahontas4.2 miles18
Slicklizzard5.1 miles11
Spring Hill5.2 miles11

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 KansasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68088The 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 121084. 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.