Alexander, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alexander-Belle Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67513. The Survey maps it on the Alexander quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,077 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlexander fell from 65 to 54 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 | 65 | |
| 2020 | 54 | -11 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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 Ness quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Ness quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Alexander quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Larned quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Alexander in 2017, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Rush County | 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 64 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexander in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 42 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 flash 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | $550,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | $500 | Power pole blown down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | A wind gust of 73 mph reported. |
| July 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Alexander | - | Brief landspout tornado. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Alexander | - | Several roads had water rushing over them. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Alexander | - | Rainfall of 2.50 was reported. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Alexander | - | The hail ranged from nickel to quarter sized. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | High wind gusts brought down a 5 inch diameter tree branch. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Five inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind. |
| June 2010 | Heavy Rain | Alexander | - | Rainfall of 3.60 was recorded. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Two inch diameter tree branches were broken. |
| July 2006 | Flood | Alexander | - | Water was one foot deep across one of the county roads nearby. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Alexander | - | 5.80 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Alexander | - | 4.90 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Alexander | - | 5.50 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Three inch diameter limbs down. |
| May 2021 | Flood | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Alexander | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nekoma | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| McCracken | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hargrave | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rush Center | 12.9 miles | 15 | |
| La Crosse | 13.6 miles | 15 | |
| Liebenthal | 17.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bison | 19.2 miles | 14 | |
| Timken | 19.9 miles | 15 |
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 Alexander | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2393389 | 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 475598. 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.






