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Cambridge, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67023. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Cambridge within Cowley County

Population over time

2 figures

Cambridge grew from 82 to 92 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
201082
202092+10 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cambridge between 2015 and 2018, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 June 2018Natural10 acresKansas Forest Service201820
19 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County2017019
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCowley County2017016
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service201815
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County31
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambridge in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 heavy rain. 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
October 2016Tornado (EF1)Cambridge$20,000The tornado moved almost due north over open country causing some damage to trees by blowing down several large trees and several large tree limbs.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCambridge$3,000A tree was blown down onto a car damaging the car.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCambridge$1,000Tree and power pole damage occurred in Cambridge.
February 2024Heavy RainCambridge-This is a 24 hour rainfall total of 1.44 inches. There was one accident during this time frame in the county could at least partially be attributed to this event. There was no apparent injury reported.
October 2024HailCambridge-A storm chaser reported a little bigger than quarter sized hail and an estimated 50 mph winds.
May 2022Heavy RainCambridge-A Coop observer in Cambridge, Kansas, reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 5.28 inches.
June 2022Heavy RainCambridge-A Coop observer in Cambridge reported 1.59 inches in 24 hours.
June 2022Heavy RainCambridge-The Coop observer in Cambridge reported 3.75 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Cambridge-Tornado briefly touched down in a very remote area. Report via KAKE television.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Cambridge-Large tornado touched down in a very remote location and did not produce any damage. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Cambridge-A brief touchdown occurred in open country. No damage occurred.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Cambridge-Remained in the country.
May 2002Flash FloodCambridge-Grouse Creek overflowed.
May 2001HailCambridge-Hail covered the ground.
April 2011HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2011HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2009HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2009HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2009HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2009HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2009HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed
May 2005HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2004HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed
June 2004HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2003HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2003HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2002HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2001HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2001HailCambridge-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed
June 1996HailCambridge-no account filed
July 1995HailCambridge-no account filed
July 1995HailCambridge-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
Burden4.8 miles15
Grand Summit7.2 miles14
Eaton8.2 miles14
Glen Crouse8.5 miles13
Atlanta9.9 miles13
Dexter9.9 miles13
Glen Grouse (historical)10.7 miles13
Tisdale11.1 miles14

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 CambridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576477The 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 469897. 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.