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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.

Beattie within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Beattie 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.

YearPeople Change
2010200
2020197-3 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
20 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service92018
31 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service83
18 March 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service3182018
3 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBeattie$70,000no account filed
June 2010HailBeattie$5,000Streets were covered with hail and several windows were reported broken by county deputies.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBeattie$2,000Strong winds blew down trees and power lines.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBeattie-One large tree blown down over the highway and damage to a road sign. Delayed report, time estimated from radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBeattie-Wind gusts to 60 mph reported.
April 2023HailBeattie-Half dollar sized hail reported via social media.
July 2020Flash FloodBeattie-Report of water covering part of the highway east of the town of Beattie.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBeattie-Five inch tree limb was down.
June 2017Tornado (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 2016Flash FloodBeattie-Water flowing over the road approximately 3 miles north of Beattie on K-99.
April 2016Flash FloodBeattie-Marshall County EM reported flooding over the roads in several spots between Oketo and Beatty.
June 2015Flash FloodBeattie-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 2010Thunderstorm WindBeattie-A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBeattie-A 60 mph wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter.
September 2007Flash FloodBeattie-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 2006Thunderstorm WindBeattie-A barn collapsed and debris was spread a quarter mile.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBeattie-2 inch limbs blown down and a trampoline was blown 50 yards.
September 2015HailBeattie-no account filed
June 2010HailBeattie-no account filed
June 2010HailBeattie-no account filed
June 2008HailBeattie-no account filed
September 2007HailBeattie-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBeattie-no account filed
May 2005HailBeattie-no account filed
May 2005HailBeattie-no account filed
May 2005HailBeattie-no account filed
October 2000HailBeattie-no account filed
June 1998HailBeattie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Summit4.6 miles15
Home5.5 miles14
Winifred7.1 miles14
Upland7.6 miles14
Axtell8.6 miles15
Carden8.8 miles14
Reedsville9.0 miles14
Summerfield10.1 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 BeattieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576374The 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.