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Argonia, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dixon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67004. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Argonia quadrangle. 456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.

Argonia within Sumner County

On record in Argonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Argonia fell from 501 to 456 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
2010501
2020456-45 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

34 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Argonia between 2015 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service1500045
26 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18022
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSumner County17035
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500043
30 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service18020
28 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSumner County17029
27 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500039
22 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSumner County17028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argonia in 61 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 29 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2008FloodArgonia1 killed, $10,000Raging water along the Chikaskia River caused 5 teenagers to become trapped, as they were rafting down the river. The water rescue that followed lead to 3 emergency workers ending up in the water along with the stranded teenagers. A volunteer firefighter then attempted to make an individual rescue, but lost his balance, and was swept under by the strong current. The man later died from injuries sustained during the rescue.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArgonia$900,000Sumner County Emergency Management reported that the roofs were torn off both the Argonia High School and the elementary school. There was also extensive damage to trees, power lines and power poles. The estimated time of when the damage occurred was from 1640 to 1650.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Argonia$250,000The following were damaged: the roof of one home, several outbuildings, and the adjacent wheat fields.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Argonia$100,000Tornado mainly moved over open country shredding trees. However, one roof was completely destroyed.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Argonia$75,000ONE LARGE BARN DESTROYED ALONG WITH SOME FARM EQUIPMENT.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArgonia$15,000Transmission lines and power poles were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArgonia$10,000Power lines were blown down on Main Street. The time of occurrence is based on radar.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindArgonia$10,000Carport blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArgonia$5,000The Sumner County Sheriff reported Highway 160 was blocked by uprooted trees. The diameters of the trunks was unknown.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindArgonia$2,000Some minor roof damage was reported.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindArgonia$1,000Several tree limbs were downed in the town of Argonia.
April 1994HailArgonia$500no account filed
March 2022HailArgonia-A public report of quarter sized hail.
April 2019HailArgonia-Report relayed via KAKE television.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindArgonia-Measured at the elementary school.
June 2014FloodArgonia-Several streets were flooded in Argonia.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArgonia-No damage was reported.
April 2012Tornado (EF3)Argonia-A two story house was completely removed from foundation and had landed on top of a three car garage. The basement is all that remained. Cars that were in the garage lost windows and one was dented on the one side. A fifth wheel camper was thrown 100 yards with only a split in the frame and wheels remaining. The top portion was only small pieces. ||This tornado continued on to the NNE and a roof was completely torn off of the home. All of the windows were blown out. Outbuildings were demolished. Large trees were uprooted. Objects were embedded into the house and trees including a twig into a tree, a 2x4 blown into an interior wall on the main part of the house. The porch was gone.
June 2010Heavy RainArgonia-THE COOP observer measured 3.87 inches of rainfall. Some minor flooding was also reported.
June 2010Heavy RainArgonia-The COOP observer reported 5.06 inches of rainfall overnight.
May 2009HailArgonia-Winds of 50 to 55 mph occurred with the hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArgonia-The Wind gust was measured at the KSNW weather lab at Argonia Elementary School.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Argonia-Occurred in open country.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindArgonia-Tree damage.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Argonia-Occurred along Highway 44 from Blackstone Rd. to S Argonia Rd. Also reported by Harper County sheriff.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Argonia-Occurred in open country.
July 1999Flash FloodArgonia-Torrential rains flooded many roads including Highway 81 which was closed.
May 2022HailArgonia-no account filed
August 2017HailArgonia-no account filed
July 2013HailArgonia-no account filed
June 2010HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2010HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2009HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
March 2008HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2004HailArgonia-no account filed
March 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
June 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
May 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2002HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2001HailArgonia-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
May 2001HailArgonia-no account filed
May 2001HailArgonia-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
October 2001HailArgonia-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
May 1996HailArgonia-no account filed
June 1996HailArgonia-no account filed
June 1996HailArgonia-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
June 1996HailArgonia-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindArgonia-no account filed
June 1996HailArgonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Milan4.9 miles20
Ewell6.5 miles20
Conway Springs10.8 miles19
Milton11.4 miles19
Mayfield11.7 miles19
Suppesville13.4 miles19
Metcalf13.7 miles19
Anson14.3 miles19

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 ArgoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2022160The 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 470186. 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.