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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.

Allen within Lyon County

Population over time

2 figures

Allen 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.

YearPeople Change
2010177
2020160-17 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

15 since 2014

Regional 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Service018-047
30 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800051
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500030
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service80
15 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Service015-023
7 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500012
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service1500013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

32 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Flash FloodAllen$100,000The northbound lane of junction of highways K99 and US56 under two feet of water with large trees and limbs floating.
April 2026Tornado (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 2025HailAllen-Pictures of hail up to slightly bigger than golfball size sent by Slack.
March 2025HailAllen-Hail covering the ground.
March 2025HailAllen-Quarter to half dollar size hail covering the ground at Northern Heights High School.
May 2023HailAllen-Quarter sized hail reported near Allen.
March 2022HailAllen-Nickel sized hail reported.
September 2020HailAllen-Report relayed from KVOE in Emporia.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindAllen-Wind gusts estimated.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindAllen-Unknown size tree branches down.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Allen-Storm chasers confirmed a brief tornado in open country.
March 2012Flash FloodAllen-Road crews were called out to barricade the 800 block of Road 300, due to water over the road.
May 2010HailAllen-This report was relayed to the office via KVOE.
June 2010Flash FloodAllen-Highway 56 near Bushong and several gravel roads were reported to have 6 inches of flowing water across the roadway.
March 2019HailAllen-no account filed
May 2019HailAllen-no account filed
September 2014HailAllen-no account filed
March 2012HailAllen-no account filed
March 2012HailAllen-no account filed
March 2012HailAllen-no account filed
April 2011HailAllen-no account filed
April 2011HailAllen-no account filed
April 2011HailAllen-no account filed
July 2011HailAllen-no account filed
May 2011HailAllen-no account filed
May 2011HailAllen-no account filed
April 2010HailAllen-no account filed
April 2010HailAllen-no account filed
March 2009HailAllen-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAllen-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAllen-no account filed
June 2005HailAllen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Admire3.7 miles15
Bushong4.7 miles16
Miller9.6 miles14
Americus11.4 miles15
Lang14.3 miles17
Reading14.6 miles14
Berkeley Hills16.5 miles18
Emporia17.4 miles18

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 AllenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2619505The 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.