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Buhler, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Little River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67522. The Survey maps it on the Buhler quadrangle. 1,325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Buhler within Reno County

On record in Buhler

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Buhler fell from 1,327 to 1,325 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
20101,327
20201,325-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

33 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Buhler between 2010 and 2018, burning about 2,301 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Natural1
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
23 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreReno County55
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2959
28 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreReno County51
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2520
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service87
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service73
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service71
16 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service79

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buhler in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 23 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 1999Tornado (F1)Buhler$1,000,000At Buhler, a subdivision consisting of 37 homes was hit. Of the 37 homes damaged, 3 were destroyed, 4 sustained major damage and 30 minor damage. This tornado would continue a northeast track into Southwest McPherson County where it skipped along Highway 61.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBuhler$100,000Downed power lines and power poles caused power outages to as many as 50 residences. Westar Energy and KSN Channel 3 contributed greatly to this narrative.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBuhler$5,000Trees and power lines downed. Unspecified damage to a garage.
July 2000LightningBuhler$5,000Minor damage inflicted to one residence when the lightning traveled thru wiring to an electrical outlet. A second lightning destroyed several hay bales just east of Buhler.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBuhler-Winds estimated from 60-70 mph were reported in Buhler.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBuhler-Reported via trained spotter.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBuhler-Power lines were blown down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBuhler-No damage reported.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBuhler-Winds were estimated between 70 and 80 mph in the Buhler area.
October 2008FloodBuhler-Minor street flooding was noted near Buhler and Pretty Prairie. Water was over the roads in a few low lying locations.
May 2005HailBuhler-Hail covered the ground.
June 2002Flash FloodBuhler-Buhler Road flooded.
May 2019HailBuhler-no account filed
April 2015HailBuhler-no account filed
May 2014HailBuhler-no account filed
May 2014HailBuhler-no account filed
July 2013HailBuhler-no account filed
September 2013HailBuhler-no account filed
August 2011HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2009HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2008HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBuhler-no account filed
May 2007HailBuhler-no account filed
April 2006HailBuhler-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBuhler-no account filed
June 2005HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2005HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2004HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2002HailBuhler-no account filed
June 2002HailBuhler-no account filed
April 2001HailBuhler-no account filed
September 2001HailBuhler-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBuhler-no account filed
September 2001HailBuhler-no account filed
May 2000HailBuhler-no account filed
May 1999HailBuhler-no account filed
June 1998HailBuhler-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Buhler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Medora4.1 miles14
Obeeville6.8 miles15
Punkin Center8.3 miles15
Hutchinson9.9 miles15
South Hutchinson11.6 miles15
Willowbrook12.0 miles15
Yaggy12.9 miles16
Elmer14.2 miles13

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 BuhlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2402876The 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 477731. 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.