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.
Population over time
2 figuresCarlton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -2 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Carlton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Saline County | 2017002 |
| 9 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 4 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | 9 |
| 28 January 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Carlton | - | Quarter size hail and estimated 50 mph winds. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Carlton | - | Quarter size hail and estimated 50 mph winds again east of Carlton. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Power was lost. The was also getting stronger. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Some tree limb damage. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Carlton | - | The hail lasted from 9:30 pm until 9:45 pm. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Carlton | - | 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 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlton | - | A brief tornado touched down in the town of Carlton. A few trees were reported to have been damaged. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | A few shingles were torn off the house. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Carlton | - | 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 Carlton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2051367 | 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 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.






