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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.

Chase within Rice County

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 figures

Chase 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.

YearPeople Change
2010477
2020396-81 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

2 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service210
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Rice County

Storms near this place

49 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998LightningChase$50,000Lightning set fire to two oil tank batteries.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindChase$5,000Some minor shingle damage occurred in town. One homeowner reported a damaged carport.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindChase$5,000Shed blown down.
September 2018FloodChase$100Local law enforcement reported numerous roads were flooded across the county.
August 2023Heavy RainChase-Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.78 inches.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindChase-A trained spotter reported the gust along with pea size hail.
June 2019HailChase-Report relayed via Twitter.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindChase-Delayed report from a storm chaser.
October 2017Tornado (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 2014Thunderstorm WindChase-Reports were received, via Twitter, of a 6-inch diameter limb that was blown down. Time of event is estimated from radar.
September 2014Heavy RainChase-Rainfall report via twitter measured 4.10 inches.
July 2013FloodChase-The emergency manager reported numerous water-covered roads throughout the county.
April 2009FloodChase-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 2008HailChase-Report of hail via law enforcement.
August 2007FloodChase-County Road H was closed northwest of Highway 56 due to high water.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-Large branches downed.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-Limbs 3 inches in diameter downed.
April 2025HailChase-no account filed
May 2017HailChase-no account filed
May 2014HailChase-no account filed
April 2013HailChase-no account filed
February 2007HailChase-no account filed
May 2005HailChase-no account filed
June 2005HailChase-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
July 2005HailChase-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
March 2002HailChase-no account filed
June 2002HailChase-no account filed
June 2002HailChase-no account filed
April 2002HailChase-no account filed
June 2002HailChase-no account filed
August 2002HailChase-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2001HailChase-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2000HailChase-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed
May 1996HailChase-no account filed
May 1996HailChase-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindChase-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Silica6.0 miles14
Raymond6.4 miles14
Lyons7.9 miles14
Alden8.0 miles14
Pollard9.8 miles14
Bushton11.1 miles13
Frederick11.7 miles14
Sterling12.5 miles14

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 ChaseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2473498The 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.