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Bushong, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Agnes City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66833. The Survey maps it on the Bushong quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.

Bushong within Lyon County

Population over time

2 figures

Bushong fell from 34 to 27 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
201034
202027-7 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

15 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bushong between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,169 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
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
30 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800051
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500030
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service80
15 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Service015-023
7 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500012
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service1500013
19 March 2017Debris and open burning10 acresLyon County017-024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushong in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 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 2005Flash FloodBushong$150,000Fast flowing water washed out bridge and closed U.S. Highway 56.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBushong$50,000The wind event continued through Lyon county and did damage to some out buildings near the city of Allen. The city of Allen and Admire also reported many large trees and tree limbs snapped as a result of the wind. The swath of damage was around 20 miles wide, with the mid line drawn through the center of the damage path.
May 1995HailBushong$50,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBushong$2,000no account filed
May 2020Tornado (EFU)Bushong-Storm chasers reported a small tornado on the ground south north of Bushong. Photos were also taken showing a narrow funnel extending near the ground. No damage was reported.
May 2020Flash FloodBushong-Estimated that a foot of water was flowing over Road 340.
May 2020Tornado (EF0)Bushong-Additional supercell t-storms developed after 830 pm CDT and produced at least 1 additional tornado near where tornadoes had been reported about one hour prior. Media outlet KVOE provided a video showing a small tornado northwest of Bushong around 9 pm CDT. Minor damage was reported to an outbuilding and a trampoline was blown over near the end point of this tornado so it will be recorded as EF0.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBushong-Shed and several tree were damaged.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Bushong-Local fire and volunteer spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown approximately 1 NW of Bushong in northwest Lyon County. No damage was reported with this brief small tornado.
October 2017HailBushong-Report was received via social media.
September 2016Flash FloodBushong-The 1400 block of road F and the 3100 block of road F are closed due to water across the road.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindBushong-A 6 inch diameter tree branch down.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindBushong-Wind gusts estimated.
March 2012HailBushong-This is a delayed report from social media.
March 2009HailBushong-Public report of hail the size of quarters.
March 2012HailBushong-no account filed
April 2011HailBushong-no account filed
May 2010HailBushong-no account filed
March 2009HailBushong-no account filed
May 2006HailBushong-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBushong-no account filed
May 2005HailBushong-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBushong-no account filed
June 2005HailBushong-no account filed
June 2005HailBushong-no account filed
June 2005HailBushong-no account filed
June 2005HailBushong-no account filed
May 2002HailBushong-no account filed
September 2000HailBushong-no account filed
April 1996HailBushong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Allen4.7 miles16
Admire8.2 miles15
Americus9.4 miles15
Miller14.1 miles14
Lang15.6 miles17
Berkeley Hills15.9 miles18
Plymouth16.3 miles18
Merrick16.6 miles18

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 BushongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2049895The 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 485487. 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.