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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.

Ada within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Ada 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.

YearPeople Change
2010100
202086-14 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

2 since 2017

Regional 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 use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOttawa County7
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

32 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindAda$25,000High 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 1999LightningAda$3,000Lightning struck a house near Ada starting a fire which did minor damage.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindAda-Report of 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2018HailAda-Time was estimated via radar.
May 2018HailAda-Wind driven softball size hail with extensive damage to siding and windows in several homes in Ada.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAda-Eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down. Time was estimated from radar.
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Ada-Multiple pictures were submitted of a landspout tornado from western Ottawa County as thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of April 15th.
May 2016HailAda-Baseball size hail decreased to dollar coin size by 533 PM.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAda-Wind gusts estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindAda-Winds of 65 to 70 mph were estimated. Some crop damage was reported, but no hail size was available.
July 2010FloodAda-Two to three inches of water was running over Mulberry Road near Ada.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAda-A member of the public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAda-A small tree's limbs a couple inches in diameter broke with an estimated gust of 55 to 60 mph.
August 2021HailAda-no account filed
May 2018HailAda-no account filed
June 2017HailAda-no account filed
May 2012HailAda-no account filed
April 2009HailAda-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAda-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAda-no account filed
February 2004HailAda-no account filed
July 2004HailAda-no account filed
June 2002HailAda-no account filed
May 2002HailAda-no account filed
August 2002HailAda-no account filed
August 2002HailAda-no account filed
September 2001HailAda-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAda-no account filed
May 1997HailAda-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAda-no account filed
May 1995HailAda-no account filed
May 1995HailAda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Brewer5.7 miles14
Sumnerville8.7 miles14
Alfmil8.9 miles14
Minneapolis9.9 miles15
Tescott9.9 miles14
Delphos10.5 miles15
Lindsey11.9 miles15
Culver14.2 miles16

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 AdaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16083973The 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.