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Barnard, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67418. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnard quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Barnard within Lincoln County

On record in Barnard

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

Barnard fell from 70 to 64 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
201070
202064-6 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Barnard between 2010 and 2019, burning about 3,192 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
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 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service52018
19 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined550 acresMitchell County360 RD
25 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresKansas CountiesSTEVE DILLON
17 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresLincoln County62017
30 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined640 acresKansas CountiesBARNARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnard in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBarnard$2,000Two large trees blown down three miles west of Barnard.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBarnard$500Tree limbs were downed.
July 2025FloodBarnard-Flooding continues in some locations across northern Lincoln County, particularly around the Barnard area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Trained spotter estimated winds of 65 to 70 mph and a large tree limb was knocked down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBarnard-The cooperative observer estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBarnard-A trained spotter reported the gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Severe outflow winds reported. Cooperative observer reported several branches and tree limbs down around town. Some of the limbs were as large as eight inches in diameter.
September 2019HailBarnard-The spotter reported a copious amount of 1-inch hail that rapidly covered his yard.
September 2014HailBarnard-The hail ranged in size from pea to penny size.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Limbs from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter downed. Power outages resulted.
June 2013Heavy RainBarnard-Heavy rains across the county caused minor issues on the county roads. No major flooding issues were noted.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Barnard-The tornado touched down briefly in open country.
September 2009HailBarnard-The quarter size hail was covering the ground in Barnard.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBarnard-A power pole was blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Estimated by a trained spotter.
September 2006Tornado (F0)Barnard-Brief touchdown in open country.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Four to five inch branches downed.
May 2018HailBarnard-no account filed
May 2018HailBarnard-no account filed
September 2014HailBarnard-no account filed
May 2014HailBarnard-no account filed
May 2013HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2011HailBarnard-no account filed
April 2010HailBarnard-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
September 2006HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
March 2004HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
April 2002HailBarnard-no account filed
August 2002HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
May 1999HailBarnard-no account filed
June 1998HailBarnard-no account filed
July 1996HailBarnard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Milo4.1 miles14
Lincoln11.7 miles12
Shady Bend11.9 miles12
Quartzite12.0 miles12
Beverly12.8 miles14
Barton13.7 miles13
Goldenrod14.0 miles12
Denmark14.8 miles12

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 BarnardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1882211The 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 472511. 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.