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Bronson, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66716. The Survey maps it on the Bronson quadrangle. 304 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Bronson within Bourbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Bronson fell from 323 to 304 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
2010323
2020304-19 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

25 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bronson between 2012 and 2020, burning about 3,649 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking8
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBourbon County223
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,200 acresKansas CountiesMINNESOTA ROAD
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service241
14 April 2017Debris and open burning10 acresBourbon County124
10 April 2020Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2018Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service64
6 March 2016Smoking5.0 acresKansas Forest ServiceMF16-04
5 March 2016Smoking20 acresKansas Forest ServiceMF16-03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronson in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 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
July 2009HailBronson$2,000,000A supercell thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail over the community of Bronson. Nearly every home in Bronson sustained window damage and siding damage from this wind driven large hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBronson$150,000Severe thunderstorm wind damage, resulting from a bow echo, produced a swath of wind damage from one mile north of Bronson into the town of Bronson. Damage along this path included numerous power lines down, downed trees and large limbs, an overturned vehicle, significant window damage to many buildings and roof damage to homes and outbuildings.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Bronson$100,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado impacted rural sections of western Bourbon County. The tornado damaged five large hay barns, several outbuildings, and uprtooted numerous trees. The wind speed was estimated at 90 mph.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBronson$35,000Numerous power lines and telephone poles was reported down across the western part of the county.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBronson$10,000Several Highway signs were blown over.
June 2025HailBronson$5,000Hail to two inches in diameter occurred in Bronson, Kansas.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBronson$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts caused minor damage to a barn along with a couple of outbuildings. A few power poles were also downed.
April 1993HailBronson$5,000no account filed
April 1993HailBronson$500A thunderstorm dropped hail intermittently as it crossed southeast Kansas from Chanute toward Fort Scott.
April 2024HailBronson-Nickle sized hail was reported.
October 2016Funnel CloudBronson-A funnel cloud was spotted by the fire department about 5 miles north of Bronson off of Highway 3.
October 2016HailBronson-Quarter size hail was reported north of Bronson.
October 2013Flash FloodBronson-The Bourbon County Emergency Management reported that several low water crossings and rural roadways around the Uniontown and Redfield area were impassable due to high water. The low water crossing near 125th and Maple Road was flooded.
April 2013HailBronson-Hail reported relayed by Fort Scott Police Department.
May 2009Funnel CloudBronson-A funnel cloud was observed by trained spotters approximately five miles southwest of Xenia.
May 2009Funnel CloudBronson-A funnel cloud was observed over northwest Bourbon County.
June 2004Flash FloodBronson-Heavy thunderstorms affected areas of western Bourbon County during the early morning hours of June 12th. Several secondary roads were inundated with flash flooding near the community of Bronson.
April 2015HailBronson-no account filed
April 2015HailBronson-no account filed
May 2013HailBronson-no account filed
June 2009HailBronson-no account filed
July 2009HailBronson-no account filed
May 2008HailBronson-no account filed
May 2004HailBronson-no account filed
May 2003HailBronson-no account filed
May 2003HailBronson-no account filed
April 2001HailBronson-no account filed
May 1999HailBronson-no account filed
June 1998HailBronson-no account filed
July 1997HailBronson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Uniontown6.2 miles19
Xenia8.3 miles19
Berlin9.6 miles19
Rockford (historical)9.6 miles17
Petersburg9.7 miles19
Redfield11.0 miles19
Porterville12.3 miles21
Mapleton13.0 miles14

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 BronsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901571The 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 474525. 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.