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Barnes, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Barnes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66933. The Survey maps it on the Barnes quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Barnes within Washington County

On record in Barnes

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

Barnes grew from 159 to 165 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
2010159
2020165+6 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Barnes in 2017, burning under an acre 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
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
23 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington County4

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnes in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F2)Barnes$750,000This tornado touched down at 420pm cst 5 miles north of Barnes and was on the ground for 17 miles before crossing the state line into Gage County, Nebraska 3.5 miles east-northeast of Hollenberg, Kansas...or about 3 miles south and 0.5 miles west of Odell, Nebraska. It was caused by a supercell thunderstorm and was sighted by many storm chasers and storm spotters. Most of the damage with this tornado was rated as F0 or F1. However, strong F2 damage was noted near the intersection of Highways 36 and 148, where one brick home had the roof torn off and some of the exterior walls knocked down. The occupants of the home were in the basement and had to be helped from the damaged home by emergency personel. Four outbuildings were also damaged at this location. Elsewhere, the tornado caused damage to one other home and five additional outbuildings as well as many trees, and one home was completely destroyed just southeast of Hanover.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBarnes$5,000Significant tree damage was caused by thunderstorm winds.
September 1993HailBarnes$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBarnes-Personal weather station.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBarnes-Sheriffs office reported minor tree damage in Barnes.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBarnes-Measured on a personal weather station.
April 2022HailBarnes-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
March 2019HailBarnes-Nickel to quarter size hail was estimated by a photo.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBarnes-Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2010FloodBarnes-Coon Creek, south of Greenleaf, was out of its banks.
August 2009HailBarnes-This was a delayed report, and was radar estimated.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Barnes-A tornado briefly touched down just west of Barnes. Buildings at several residences sustained damage, includeing several outbuildings. The porch was also reported to have been blown off of a house.
January 2006Tornado (F0)Barnes-The tornado formed from a low-topped mini-supercell 4 miles SSW of Fact and was on the ground briefly before dissipating 0.5 miles E of Fact. It caused only tree damage and had a path width of about 50 yards.
August 2024HailBarnes-no account filed
June 2012HailBarnes-no account filed
June 2012HailBarnes-no account filed
April 2012HailBarnes-no account filed
April 2011HailBarnes-no account filed
March 2011HailBarnes-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBarnes-no account filed
June 2008HailBarnes-no account filed
November 2008Thunderstorm WindBarnes-no account filed
June 2008HailBarnes-no account filed
June 2005HailBarnes-no account filed
June 2005HailBarnes-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBarnes-no account filed
August 2004HailBarnes-no account filed
August 2000HailBarnes-no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodBarnes-no account filed
June 1997HailBarnes-no account filed
June 1996HailBarnes-no account filed
May 1996HailBarnes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Greenleaf5.5 miles15
Chepstow6.3 miles15
Kimeo10.2 miles15
Linn11.3 miles13
Washington11.9 miles13
Hanover12.6 miles15
Palmer15.1 miles13
Spence15.6 miles15

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 BarnesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2149658The 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 473152. 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.