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.
Population over time
2 figuresBushong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 34 | |
| 2020 | 27 | -7 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Bushong quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2014Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800051 |
| 13 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500030 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 15 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-023 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500012 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500013 |
| 19 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Lyon County | 017-024 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Bushong | $150,000 | Fast flowing water washed out bridge and closed U.S. Highway 56. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | $50,000 | The 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 1995 | Hail | Bushong | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Tornado (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 2020 | Flash Flood | Bushong | - | Estimated that a foot of water was flowing over Road 340. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | - | Shed and several tree were damaged. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (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 2017 | Hail | Bushong | - | Report was received via social media. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Bushong | - | The 1400 block of road F and the 3100 block of road F are closed due to water across the road. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | - | A 6 inch diameter tree branch down. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Bushong | - | This is a delayed report from social media. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Bushong | - | Public report of hail the size of quarters. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bushong | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Bushong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2049895 | The 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.






