Ada, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67467. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ada quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAda fell from 100 to 86 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 100 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -14 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Ada quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ada between 2017 and 2020, burning about 205 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Ottawa County | 7 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
32 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ada in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 18 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $25,000 | High winds, large hail, some two inches in diameter, and heavy rain caused widespread damage between Ada and Minneapolis in central Ottawa County. Damage to crops, outbuildings, barns, and farm equipment was reported. |
| September 1999 | Lightning | Ada | $3,000 | Lightning struck a house near Ada starting a fire which did minor damage. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Report of 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ada | - | Time was estimated via radar. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ada | - | Wind driven softball size hail with extensive damage to siding and windows in several homes in Ada. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down. Time was estimated from radar. |
| April 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Ada | - | Multiple pictures were submitted of a landspout tornado from western Ottawa County as thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of April 15th. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ada | - | Baseball size hail decreased to dollar coin size by 533 PM. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Winds of 65 to 70 mph were estimated. Some crop damage was reported, but no hail size was available. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Ada | - | Two to three inches of water was running over Mulberry Road near Ada. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A member of the public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A small tree's limbs a couple inches in diameter broke with an estimated gust of 55 to 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Ada | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brewer | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Sumnerville | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Alfmil | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Minneapolis | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Tescott | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Delphos | 10.5 miles | 15 | |
| Lindsey | 11.9 miles | 15 | |
| Culver | 14.2 miles | 16 |
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 Ada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16083973 | 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 476271. 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.





