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Brownell, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67521. The Survey maps it on the Brownell quadrangle. 23 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,415 feet above sea level.

Brownell within Ness County

Population over time

2 figures

Brownell fell from 29 to 23 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
201029
202023-6 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

Storms near this place

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownell in 57 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 34 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 3 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBrownell$200,000Two separate swaths of hail moved through the county. The first was in a 7 to 12 mile wide swath from 2 miles south of Utica...to Arnold...Ransom...Brownell...and McCracken. The second swath was from 2 miles south of Beeler...to 4 miles south of Ness City...to 3 miles south of Bazine. A dollar amount was not made available...but crops were nearly completely wiped out in the hail swaths and numerous windows were broken out in automobiles and homes.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBrownell-A wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
August 2020HailBrownell-Windows were broke out several vehicles.
April 2016FloodBrownell-Several roads were flooded.
August 2014Flash FloodBrownell-Water was reported over several county roads near Brownell.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Brownell-A brief multi-vortex tornado lasted just a couple of minutes.
August 2008Heavy RainBrownell-Rainfall of 4.00 was measured.
August 2008Heavy RainBrownell-Rainfall of 2.72 was measured. The ditches were running full.
August 2008Heavy RainBrownell-Rainfall of 4.50 was measured and some county roads were flooded in the area.
July 2007Heavy RainBrownell-Six inches of rain fell overnight and early in the morning.
July 2007Heavy RainBrownell-Four and one half inches of rain fell overnight and early in the morning.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Brownell-This was a brief tornado that did not cause damage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBrownell-Three inch diameter tree limbs blown down
September 2001Flash FloodBrownell-Snake Creek and Big Timber Creek both flooded along highway 4 from 7 miles east of Brownell to 4 miles north of McCracken.
September 2001Flash FloodBrownell-Water was over highway 4, one mile west of the Rush county line.
May 1999HailBrownell-Also had 60 mph wind.
June 1999Heavy RainBrownell-Rainfall of 2.00" in 15 minutes.
May 1998HailBrownell-Hail covered the ground.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
August 2014HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2012HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2012HailBrownell-no account filed
August 2011HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2011HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2010HailBrownell-no account filed
June 2008HailBrownell-no account filed
June 2008HailBrownell-no account filed
October 2007HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2007HailBrownell-no account filed
October 2007HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2007HailBrownell-no account filed
May 2007HailBrownell-no account filed
April 2005HailBrownell-no account filed
June 2004HailBrownell-no account filed
June 2004HailBrownell-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
May 2002HailBrownell-no account filed
July 2002HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
September 2001HailBrownell-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
June 2000HailBrownell-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
August 1999HailBrownell-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBrownell-no account filed
May 1998HailBrownell-no account filed
June 1998HailBrownell-no account filed
September 1997HailBrownell-no account filed
May 1996HailBrownell-no account filed
June 1995HailBrownell-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
Osgood5.3 miles13
Ransom9.9 miles13
Bazine13.8 miles15
Ness City15.5 miles15
Arnold15.9 miles8
Laird21.1 miles8
Utica22.5 miles8
Riverside24.2 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 BrownellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2277444The 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 475380. 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.

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.