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Bazine, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bazine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67516. It stands on Bazine Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bazine quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,129 feet above sea level.

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Bazine within Ness County

On record in Bazine

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bazine fell from 334 to 282 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
2010334
2020282-52 (-16%)

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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bazine between 2015 and 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14
22 February 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNess County4
2 February 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2
10 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6

Every fire recorded in Ness County

Storms near this place

60 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bazine in 110 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 79 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 2 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
June 1995HailBazine$25,000no account filed
September 2006HailBazine$15,000There was significant damage done to the house siding. Dents were made in the steel siding.
June 1995HailBazine$10,000no account filed
April 1993HailBazine$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBazine$2,000Power poles and lines knocked down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBazine-A public report estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. A mesonet site recorded a 56 mph gust shortly before the public report at the KKSNESSC2 observing station.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBazine-Public reported 60 mph wind estimate.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBazine-A large tree was blown down by the high wind.
April 2016FloodBazine-Multiple roads were flooded in the Bazine area.
October 2016HailBazine-A few quarter sized stones were observed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBazine-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBazine-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBazine-Tree limbs up to six inches in diameter were blown down by the high wind.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBazine-Winds were at least 70 MPH.
June 2014HailBazine-There was also high wind with the hail.
March 2013HailBazine-The hail ranged from nickel to quarter sized. There was only 0.16 of precipitation in the gauge after the event.
March 2013HailBazine-Melting hailstones the size of nickels were still on the ground the next morning.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBazine-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2011HailBazine-The hail broke holes in the fiberglass roof panels on a shed.
May 2011HailBazine-The ground was white with the stones varying from pea to quarter size.
August 2009HailBazine-The hail was accompanied by 70 mph winds.
August 2009HailBazine-The hail was accompanied by 60 mph winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBazine-There was also dime to nickel sized hail.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBazine-There was also quarter sized hail.
June 2008HailBazine-The large hail was mostly comprised of flat disks.
August 2008Heavy RainBazine-Rainfall of 4.95 was measured.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindBazine-Milo was blown over in the fields.
August 2006Heavy RainBazine-5.10 inches of rain fell overnight.
August 2006Heavy RainBazine-5.00 inches of rain fell overnight. Creeks were running full.
July 2006Heavy RainBazine-Three inches of rain fell in a short period.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBazine-A large tree was blown over.
August 2006Heavy RainBazine-4.52 inches of rain fell overnight.
August 2006Heavy RainBazine-4.50 inches of rain fell overnight. Some county roads had water flowing over them.
September 2003Flash FloodBazine-Many roads in the northeast corner of the county had two to three feet of water flowing over them.
June 2002HailBazine-Windows were broken out by the hail.
June 2001Flash FloodBazine-Water over county roads.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBazine-Three inch branches down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBazine-Four to six inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBazine-Recorded by wind equipment.
May 2023HailBazine-no account filed
May 2023HailBazine-no account filed
June 2023HailBazine-no account filed
June 2022HailBazine-no account filed
June 2022HailBazine-no account filed
August 2020HailBazine-no account filed
April 2019HailBazine-no account filed
June 2018HailBazine-no account filed
May 2018HailBazine-no account filed
May 2018HailBazine-no account filed
June 2017HailBazine-no account filed
October 2017HailBazine-no account filed
October 2017HailBazine-no account filed
May 2015HailBazine-no account filed
August 2014HailBazine-no account filed
August 2014HailBazine-no account filed
May 2013HailBazine-no account filed
April 2013HailBazine-no account filed
May 2012HailBazine-no account filed
May 2012HailBazine-no account filed
May 2012HailBazine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ness 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
Ness City11.4 miles15
Riverside11.7 miles15
Brownell13.8 miles13
Osgood16.8 miles13
Harold17.4 miles15
Ransom18.4 miles13
Laird19.2 miles8
Arnold23.1 miles8

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 BazineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673284The 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 475595. 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.