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Burden, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67019. The Survey maps it on the Burden quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Burden within Cowley County

On record in Burden

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

Burden fell from 535 to 512 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
2010535
2020512-23 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

20 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Burden between 2015 and 2018, burning about 130 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCowley County114
29 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service201824
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service85
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service57
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCowley County2017016
12 April 2017Debris and open burning50 acresCowley County50
10 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service53
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County31

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Storms near this place

60 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burden in 65 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 39 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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
June 1998Tornado (F0)Burden$500,000Minor damage inflicted to a few homes on south side of Burden.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurden$35,000A tree was blown onto a house causing damage to the house. Also several power poles were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBurden$5,000Power lines were reported down just east of Burden.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBurden$5,000A tree with an 8-inch diameter trunk was uprooted.
April 1994HailBurden$500no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBurden$200Some tree limbs were downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBurden-Law enforcement reported multiple trees and powerlines down throughout town. There was damage to a public works facility outbuilding and garage as well which was relayed via pictures sent by emergency management.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBurden-Law enforcement estimated winds up to 70 mph. Tree damage was reported across town.
April 2020HailBurden-Mostly nickel sized hail with a few larger stones mixed in.
May 2019Flash FloodBurden-A road was flooded near New Salem which is just south of Timber Creek Lake.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Burden-Tree damage was noted along the path.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBurden-The gust occurred at Winfield City Lake.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBurden-No damage was reported.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindBurden-A 72 mph wind gust reported at Central Schools.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBurden-Wind report was estimated.
May 2016HailBurden-The time was based on radar.
August 2016FloodBurden-Significant flooding occurred at a low-water crossing near Burden.
April 2012HailBurden-Some of the hail was ping pong ball size, but most of the hail was to the size of quarters.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Burden-A rope tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBurden-KSN Weather Lab.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBurden-Gusts ranged from 52-61kt.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
July 2023HailBurden-no account filed
April 2020HailBurden-no account filed
April 2017HailBurden-no account filed
May 2016HailBurden-no account filed
May 2016HailBurden-no account filed
June 2014HailBurden-no account filed
June 2011HailBurden-no account filed
June 2011HailBurden-no account filed
June 2011HailBurden-no account filed
June 2011HailBurden-no account filed
March 2009HailBurden-no account filed
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
May 2009HailBurden-no account filed
June 2009HailBurden-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
August 2009HailBurden-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
May 2008HailBurden-no account filed
May 2008HailBurden-no account filed
May 2008HailBurden-no account filed
June 2007HailBurden-no account filed
June 2007HailBurden-no account filed
April 2006HailBurden-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
June 2005HailBurden-no account filed
April 2004HailBurden-no account filed
April 2003HailBurden-no account filed
May 2003HailBurden-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
May 2002HailBurden-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
September 2002HailBurden-no account filed
June 2001HailBurden-no account filed
July 2001HailBurden-no account filed
October 2001HailBurden-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBurden-no account filed
May 1999HailBurden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowley 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
Cambridge4.8 miles13
Eaton5.8 miles14
Tisdale7.1 miles14
New Salem7.5 miles14
Wilmot7.8 miles14
Atlanta8.5 miles13
Floral9.3 miles14
Dexter9.6 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 BurdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2142593The 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 469910. 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.