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.
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
- Washington County Kingpostlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresBarnes 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 159 | |
| 2020 | 165 | +6 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Barnes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington County | 4 |
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Barnes | $750,000 | This 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | $5,000 | Significant tree damage was caused by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Barnes | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Personal weather station. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Sheriffs office reported minor tree damage in Barnes. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Barnes | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Barnes | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was estimated by a photo. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches. Time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Barnes | - | Coon Creek, south of Greenleaf, was out of its banks. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Barnes | - | This was a delayed report, and was radar estimated. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (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 2006 | Tornado (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 2024 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| November 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Barnes | - | 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 Barnes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2149658 | 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 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.






