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Carlton, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Holland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67448. The Survey maps it on the Carlton quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Carlton within Dickinson County

Population over time

2 figures

Carlton fell from 42 to 40 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
201042
202040-2 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Carlton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 155 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
11 September 2017Debris and open burning80 acresSaline County2017002
9 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service8
4 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service7
18 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresDickinson County9
28 January 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlton in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 27 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
May 2024HailCarlton-Quarter size hail and estimated 50 mph winds.
May 2024HailCarlton-Quarter size hail and estimated 50 mph winds again east of Carlton.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Report of 60 mph wind gust.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Power was lost. The was also getting stronger.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Some tree limb damage.
June 2011HailCarlton-The hail lasted from 9:30 pm until 9:45 pm.
April 2009Flash FloodCarlton-Several police officers in the field relayed to dispatch locations where flash flooding occurred. First, water up to four feet deep was reported to be running over Solomon Road one mile north of K-4 Highway. Officers in the town of Hope reported water several inches deep running over K-4 Highway. North of town, several locations along Highway 43 were also reported to have water flowing over the roadway.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Carlton-A brief tornado touched down in the town of Carlton. A few trees were reported to have been damaged.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCarlton-A few shingles were torn off the house.
April 2026HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2019HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2015HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2015HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2014HailCarlton-no account filed
April 2011HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2011HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2011HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2007HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2007HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2006HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2005HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2005HailCarlton-no account filed
June 2005HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2004HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2003HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCarlton-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlton-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlton-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlton-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlton-no account filed
April 2001HailCarlton-no account filed
May 1997HailCarlton-no account filed
May 1997HailCarlton-no account filed
May 1997HailCarlton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Elmo3.4 miles17
Holland5.2 miles15
Dillon7.8 miles17
Acme10.9 miles15
Hope11.5 miles16
Navarre12.5 miles15
Jacobs14.9 miles17
Sand Spring15.2 miles17

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 CarltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2051367The 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 476970. 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.