Chapman, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Noble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67431. It stands on Chapman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chapman quadrangle. 1,377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.
On record in Chapman
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 7 records
Chapman Creek Pratt Truss Bridgelisted 2003
Freeman-Zumbrunn Houselisted 2002
J.S. Hollinger Farmsteadlisted 2010
Prospect Park Farmlisted 1982
Wilson Pratt Truss Bridgelisted 2009- Smoky Hill Trail and Butterfield Overland Despatch Segmentlisted 2015
- Wheatland Farm Historic Districtlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresChapman fell from 1,393 to 1,377 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 | 1,393 | |
| 2020 | 1,377 | -16 (-1%) |
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 Chapman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Chapman between 2005 and 2020, burning about 903 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 14802 |
| 4 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6632 |
| 30 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 68 |
| 3 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7240 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chapman: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Falls Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapman in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Chapman | $750,000 | Large hail driven by high winds caused widespread roof, window and vehicle damage in and around the area. At the three Chapman schools, nearly 100 windows and 10 skylights were knocked out. In addition, widespread roof damage occurred at the schools and other buildings around the town. School was cancelled for at least one day. Many county rural roads were under water and closed from heavy rains. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | $5 | High winds accompanied by large hail knocked down power lines. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Chapman | - | Half dollar size hail south side of Chapman. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Chapman | - | Quarter size hail east side of Chapman. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Time estimated radar. Four inch diameter down across road. This is a delayed report. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree limb down. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Two to 3 inches of water flowing over the Chapman exit on Interstate 70. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Picture of road flooded at 6th and Marshall Ave in Chapman. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Via social media of a washed out dirt road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Tree limb two inches in diameter blown down. Winds estimated between 55 and 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree uprooted. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree blown over in city park. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported from mping. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Wind estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Multiple 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Tree limbs 3 to 6 inches is diameter snapped or torn off healthy trees. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Chapman | - | Nickel size hail reported by trained spotter. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Chapman | - | Tornado formed around 1-2 miles northeast of Chapman and tracked into Geary County. Formed near interstate 70 northeast of Chapman based on spotter reports. No damage reports have been received from the track in Dickinson and Geary Counties. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Shingles were torn off of a hours along with 8-10 inch diameter limbs blown down. A tin roof was also torn off a shed. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | A tree was reported down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | A tree fell on a car. Time was estimated by radar. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Law enforcement reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Chapman | - | The tornado was reported by law enforcement 8 miles south of Chapman and moved north for approximately 1.5 miles before dissipating 6.5 miles south of Chapman. No damage was reported with this F0 tornado. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Chapman | - | 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 Chapman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2531917 | 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 476688. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






