Abilene, Kansas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 33 shown

• Parker CarouselNational Historic Landmark · listed 1987
• Abilene Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2009
• Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depotlisted 1993
• Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depotlisted 1992
• ATSF Steam Locomotive No. 3415listed 2012
• Berger Houselisted 2007
• John W. Birchmore Houselisted 2014
• Emerson Coulson Houselisted 1995
• Eisenhower Homelisted 1971
• Elms Hotellisted 2008
• Jacob S. Engle Houselisted 2017
• Garfield Elementary Schoollisted 2009

Every listing in Dickinson County

Abilene fell from 6,844 to 6,460 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.

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.

• 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Abilene between 2015 and 2018, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sand Spring
• Talmage
• Buckeye
• Solomon

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

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

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abilene in 145 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 72 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 4 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Dickinson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476675. 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.