Allen, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Agnes City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66833. The Survey maps it on the Allen quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAllen fell from 177 to 160 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 | 177 | |
| 2020 | 160 | -17 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Allen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Allen between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,202 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 018-047 |
| 30 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800051 |
| 13 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500030 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 15 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-023 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500012 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500013 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen in 32 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 23 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Allen | $100,000 | The northbound lane of junction of highways K99 and US56 under two feet of water with large trees and limbs floating. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Allen | - | A member of the public shared a video that appears to show a small tornado in a field. No damage was reported and the tornado appeared to last less than one minute. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Allen | - | Pictures of hail up to slightly bigger than golfball size sent by Slack. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Allen | - | Hail covering the ground. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Allen | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail covering the ground at Northern Heights High School. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Allen | - | Quarter sized hail reported near Allen. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Allen | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Allen | - | Report relayed from KVOE in Emporia. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Unknown size tree branches down. |
| March 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Allen | - | Storm chasers confirmed a brief tornado in open country. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Allen | - | Road crews were called out to barricade the 800 block of Road 300, due to water over the road. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Allen | - | This report was relayed to the office via KVOE. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Allen | - | Highway 56 near Bushong and several gravel roads were reported to have 6 inches of flowing water across the roadway. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Allen | - | 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.
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 Allen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619505 | 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 477038. 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.






