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.
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
St. Bridget Churchlisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresAxtell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 406 | |
| 2020 | 399 | -7 (-2%) |
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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Axtell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 24 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Marshall County | 5 |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 20 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Axtell | $500 | Fast flowing water running across county roads. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | Measured on mesonet station. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | Report of 65 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Axtell | - | Delayed report received via social media post on WIBW-TV. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Axtell | - | Numerous trees and powerlines down in Axtell. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Axtell | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Axtell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Bridget | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Beattie | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| Summerfield | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Vermillion | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Vliets | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Winifred | 13.7 miles | 14 | |
| Home | 14.0 miles | 14 |
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 Axtell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978766 | 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 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.






