Baldwin City, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66006. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin City quadrangle. 4,826 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
On record in Baldwin City
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 12 of 17 shown
Baldwin City School and Auditorium-Gymnasiumlisted 2015
Barnes Apple Barnlisted 2006
Case Librarylisted 1986
Coal Creek Librarylisted 2003
Elmwood Stock Farm Barnlisted 2022
Marion Springs Schoollisted 2018
Old Castle Hall, Baker Universitylisted 1971
Parmenter Memorial Halllisted 1977
Santa Fe Depotlisted 1983
Stony Point Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 2006- Clearfield School-District 58listed 2014
- Kansas Homestead of Thomas McQuill(i)anlisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresBaldwin City grew from 4,515 to 4,826 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 | 4,515 | |
| 2020 | 4,826 | +311 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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 Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Baldwin City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
56 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin City between 2015 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 311 |
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 244 |
| 5 May 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Franklin County | 32 |
| 27 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 229 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 28 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 29 |
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin City in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Baldwin City | $1,000,000 | A small tornado formed along the north edge of a strong downburst and moved mainly across open fields. The tornado skipped across the county destroying several farm buildings, a motorhome and farm equipment. However, with widespread straightline wind damage in the area, it was difficult to distinguish between the cause(s) of the damage. The most significant damage occurred along and about one to two miles west of highway 33. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldwin City | $20,000 | High winds tore down power poles and lines knocking out electricity for several hours. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Vinland | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Clearfield | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| Sibleyville | 7.5 miles | 19 | |
| Worden | 7.9 miles | 18 | |
| Hesper | 10.4 miles | 21 | |
| Lone Star | 11.0 miles | 18 |
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 Baldwin City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q367192 | 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 479524. 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.







