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Carbondale, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ridgeway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66414. The Survey maps it on the Carbondale quadrangle. 1,352 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

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Carbondale within Osage County

On record in Carbondale

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

Carbondale fell from 1,437 to 1,352 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
20101,437
20201,352-85 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

61 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Carbondale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 564 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800242
18 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresOsage County196
7 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service1800106
6 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKansas Forest Service1800105
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service82
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service482
26 April 2015Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service107
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800134

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbondale in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 33 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 funnel cloud, 4 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
May 1995HailCarbondale$125,000Large hail and high winds combined to produced a 1.5 mile wide west to east swath of damage through the northern of the county, mainly along highway 56 from Overbrook and then west near highway 31.
November 1998Tornado (F0)Carbondale$75,000A small rain-wrapped tornado damaged or destroyed mainly outbuildings, barns, trees and a few roofs as it moved northeast from southwest of Carbondale, across Main and Second streets before dissipating a little west of US Highway 75. Most of the damage occurred southwest of town and in about a 2 block section around Main and Second streets near the downtown area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Storm spotter reported a wind gust of 60 to 70 mph.
March 2022HailCarbondale-Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Tree branches 6 to 8 inches in diameter down. Nickel size hail also reported.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-At least 4 inch diameter limbs down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Four inch diameter limbs snapped.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Quarter size hail was also falling.
May 2016HailCarbondale-Winds were also estimated to be 60 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-A few 3 inch diameter tree limbs down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-Damage to roof with winds of 60-65 mph estimated.
September 2011Funnel CloudCarbondale-Funnel cloud reported near Carbondale Lake.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-A 30 foot tall tree 13 inches in diameter was blown down across the road.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-A 30 foot tall tree 13 inches in diameter was blown down across the road.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Carbondale-A funnel cloud briefly touched down with dust near the ground visible in an open field. The tornado lasted less than 30 seconds and did no damage. It was a landspout tornado.
July 2010Funnel CloudCarbondale-Two funnel clouds persisted. One reached down 3/4 of the way to the ground and was pointed at the tip. No debris was visible due to tree line.
July 2010Funnel CloudCarbondale-A funnel cloud was observed by Forbes Field control tower personnel between 5 and 10 miles south of the airfield.
April 2009Flash FloodCarbondale-Water rescue completed one and a half miles east of Kansas Hwy-99. A person was trapped in their vehicle due to flash flood waters. Neither a death or injury was reported.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Carbondale-A tornado touched down briefly in open country.
June 2004Flash FloodCarbondale-Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. Water overflowed part of a road junction south of Carbondale. Streets were flooded in Overbrook.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Carbondale-A tornado briefly touched down near Carbondale then dissipated.
August 2004Funnel CloudCarbondale-Several funnel clouds were seen near Carbondale.
July 2003Funnel CloudCarbondale-A funnel cloud was spotted north of Carbondale.
May 2017HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 2016HailCarbondale-no account filed
July 2015HailCarbondale-no account filed
July 2015HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2012HailCarbondale-no account filed
April 2011HailCarbondale-no account filed
April 2011HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 2009HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 2009HailCarbondale-no account filed
April 2009HailCarbondale-no account filed
April 2009HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 2006HailCarbondale-no account filed
September 2006HailCarbondale-no account filed
June 2005HailCarbondale-no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
August 2004HailCarbondale-no account filed
August 2004HailCarbondale-no account filed
August 2004HailCarbondale-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
April 2001HailCarbondale-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCarbondale-no account filed
August 1998HailCarbondale-no account filed
March 1997HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 1997HailCarbondale-no account filed
May 1997HailCarbondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Mineral Springs1.5 miles16
Four Corners2.5 miles16
Scranton3.7 miles16
Swissvale5.9 miles15
Overbrook7.5 miles15
Burlingame8.9 miles16
Peterton12.1 miles14
Lyndon Station12.2 miles15

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 CarbondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29644The 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 479448. 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.