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.
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
Salt Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridgelisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresBarnard 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 70 | |
| 2020 | 64 | -6 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Barnard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 52018 |
| 19 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 550 acres | Mitchell County | 360 RD |
| 25 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | Kansas Counties | STEVE DILLON |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Lincoln County | 62017 |
| 30 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 acres | Kansas Counties | BARNARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | $2,000 | Two large trees blown down three miles west of Barnard. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | $500 | Tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Barnard | - | Flooding continues in some locations across northern Lincoln County, particularly around the Barnard area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Trained spotter estimated winds of 65 to 70 mph and a large tree limb was knocked down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | The cooperative observer estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | A trained spotter reported the gust. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Barnard | - | The spotter reported a copious amount of 1-inch hail that rapidly covered his yard. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | The hail ranged in size from pea to penny size. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Limbs from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter downed. Power outages resulted. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Barnard | - | Heavy rains across the county caused minor issues on the county roads. No major flooding issues were noted. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Barnard | - | The tornado touched down briefly in open country. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Barnard | - | The quarter size hail was covering the ground in Barnard. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | A power pole was blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Estimated by a trained spotter. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Barnard | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Four to five inch branches downed. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Barnard | - | 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.
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 Barnard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1882211 | 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 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.




