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Axtell, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Murray Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66403. The Survey maps it on the Axtell quadrangle. 399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Axtell within Marshall County

On record in Axtell

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

Axtell fell from 406 to 399 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
2010406
2020399-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Axtell between 2015 and 2017, burning about 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
24 June 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresMarshall County5
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service3
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Axtell in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAxtell$5,000no account filed
May 2005Flash FloodAxtell$500Fast flowing water running across county roads.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAxtell-Measured on mesonet station.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAxtell-Report of 65 mph wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAxtell-Estimated wind gust report.
June 2018HailAxtell-Delayed report received via social media post on WIBW-TV.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAxtell-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAxtell-A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAxtell-Numerous trees and powerlines down in Axtell.
June 2020HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2020HailAxtell-no account filed
April 2015HailAxtell-no account filed
October 2013HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2011HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2011HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2010HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2010HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2010HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2009HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2009HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2008HailAxtell-no account filed
June 2001HailAxtell-no account filed
June 1998HailAxtell-no account filed
June 1997HailAxtell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Summit5.0 miles15
Saint Bridget6.5 miles15
Beattie8.6 miles14
Summerfield9.9 miles15
Vermillion10.5 miles16
Vliets11.6 miles16
Winifred13.7 miles14
Home14.0 miles14

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 AxtellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978766The 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 472717. 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.