Chase, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67524. The Survey maps it on the Chase quadrangle. 396 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,716 feet above sea level.
On record in Chase
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 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresChase fell from 477 to 396 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 | 477 | |
| 2020 | 396 | -81 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Chase quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chase between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 210 |
| 6 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
49 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chase in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 4 flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Lightning | Chase | $50,000 | Lightning set fire to two oil tank batteries. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | $5,000 | Some minor shingle damage occurred in town. One homeowner reported a damaged carport. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | $5,000 | Shed blown down. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Chase | $100 | Local law enforcement reported numerous roads were flooded across the county. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Chase | - | Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.78 inches. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | A trained spotter reported the gust along with pea size hail. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Chase | - | Report relayed via Twitter. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | Delayed report from a storm chaser. |
| October 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Chase | - | Sheet metal was torn away from the roof and deposited to the north and northwest. Another nearby structure not attached to the ground was turned over to the south. All other debris damage in the county was blown towards the northeast. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | Reports were received, via Twitter, of a 6-inch diameter limb that was blown down. Time of event is estimated from radar. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Chase | - | Rainfall report via twitter measured 4.10 inches. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Chase | - | The emergency manager reported numerous water-covered roads throughout the county. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Chase | - | Heavy rainfall from numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours of the 26th produced widespread flooding across much of Rice county, with the exception of far northwest portions of the county. Numerous primarily rural roads remained submerged through early on the 28th. Some street flooding also occurred in Sterling on the 26th, and likely also occurred for other communities across the county. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unavailable. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Chase | - | Report of hail via law enforcement. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Chase | - | County Road H was closed northwest of Highway 56 due to high water. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | Large branches downed. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | Limbs 3 inches in diameter downed. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Chase | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chase | - | 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 Chase | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2473498 | 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 475794. 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.





