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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.

Baldwin City within Douglas County

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

Every listing in Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Baldwin 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,515
20204,826+311 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

56 since 2015

Regional 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism15
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
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service311
10 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service244
5 May 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFranklin County32
27 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service229
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service51
28 April 2018Arson/incendiarism15 acresKansas Forest Service29
11 April 2018Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service163

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Tornado (F1)Baldwin City$1,000,000A 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 1995Thunderstorm WindBaldwin City$20,000High winds tore down power poles and lines knocking out electricity for several hours.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Black Jack3.8 miles18
Vinland4.5 miles17
Clearfield6.1 miles18
Pleasant Grove7.1 miles18
Sibleyville7.5 miles19
Worden7.9 miles18
Hesper10.4 miles21
Lone Star11.0 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 Baldwin CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q367192The 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.