Beattie, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Guittard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66406. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beattie quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeattie fell from 200 to 197 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 | 200 | |
| 2020 | 197 | -3 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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 Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Beattie quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beattie between 2015 and 2020, burning about 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 92018 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 83 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3182018 |
| 3 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beattie in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | $70,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Beattie | $5,000 | Streets were covered with hail and several windows were reported broken by county deputies. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | $2,000 | Strong winds blew down trees and power lines. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | One large tree blown down over the highway and damage to a road sign. Delayed report, time estimated from radar. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | Wind gusts to 60 mph reported. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Beattie | - | Half dollar sized hail reported via social media. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Beattie | - | Report of water covering part of the highway east of the town of Beattie. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | Five inch tree limb was down. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Beattie | - | NWS WCM and Marshall County EM surveyed damage from a tornado that hit a dairy farm where the owner took refuge in a cinder block barn and noted that his ears popped as the winds reached a peak. Mature cedar tree trunks were snapped and outbuildings were destroyed at the farm. Another large outbuilding was destroyed just south of highway 36 in the path of the tornado. Damage indicators suggest that this was an EF1 tornado with winds in the 90 to 100 mph range. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Beattie | - | Water flowing over the road approximately 3 miles north of Beattie on K-99. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Beattie | - | Marshall County EM reported flooding over the roads in several spots between Oketo and Beatty. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Beattie | - | Flash flooding of the township and county roads from 4 to 8 miles east and northeast of Oketo. Some damage to roads as well. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | A 60 mph wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Beattie | - | Several basements in the town of Beattie reported to have water in them. At 10:25 CST law enforcement officials also reported that Hwy 99 was closed between the town of Beattie and Hwy 36 because of water over the roadway. The bridge over Robidoux Creek west of Beattie also had water over it. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | A barn collapsed and debris was spread a quarter mile. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | 2 inch limbs blown down and a trampoline was blown 50 yards. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Beattie | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Beattie | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Home | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Winifred | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Upland | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Axtell | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Carden | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| Reedsville | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Summerfield | 10.1 miles | 15 |
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 Beattie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q576374 | 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 472936. 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.






