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Cheney, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Morton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67025. The Survey maps it on the Cheney quadrangle. 2,181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.

Cheney within Sedgwick County

Population over time

2 figures

Cheney grew from 2,094 to 2,181 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
20102,094
20202,181+87 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

43 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cheney between 2015 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County239
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service276
27 June 2017Fireworks3.0 acresSedgwick County176
27 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service240
24 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service235
22 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service231
12 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSedgwick County4074

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheney in 59 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 39 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCheney$600,000Major tree damage with some minor damage to bulidings. One garage and two metal buildings were destroyed.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindCheney$25,000A semi truck was rolled off the road.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCheney$10,000Metal grain storage building damaged.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCheney$5,000A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds in Cheney. The strong winds also knocked down power lines, which kept some homes in the dark for two to three hours.
July 2016FloodCheney$100Cheney Fire department reported 1 to 2 feet of water flowing over 375th Street West.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCheney-Public report via X of a 12 inch diameter tree limb broken.
May 2022HailCheney-A picture of golf ball sized hail was sent in by the public.
May 2022HailCheney-The report was relayed via social media.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCheney-A report was sent via Twitter of an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
July 2020FloodCheney-Minor street flooding was noted in town. Elsewhere, nuisance flooding was noted due to rainfall amounts between 2 and 3 inches across much of the western half of Sedgwick county. Images and reports were courtesy of KAKE TV.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCheney-Four power poles were blown down.
July 2013HailCheney-No damage was reported.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCheney-Reported power outages in Cheney.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCheney-Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter on Highway 54 just inside the county line.
September 2009Heavy RainCheney-Cheney Middle School reported 1.67 inches of rainfall. Report courtesy of KSN TV.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCheney-An off duty KSNW meteorologist reported a 60 mph wind gust in Cheney.
June 2008FloodCheney-Very heavy rainfall amounts in a short period of time caused some street flooding in and around the town of Cheney from the early morning to early afternoon hours on the 28th. The high water caused some vehicles to stall. Any potential damage estimates are unknown.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Cheney-Brief touchdown in open country
May 2002Flash FloodCheney-Several streets were covered by water.
May 2002Flash FloodCheney-Several roads were water covered.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCheney-CARPORT BLOWN INTO A TREE. TREE DAMAGE.
May 2016HailCheney-no account filed
October 2016HailCheney-no account filed
October 2016HailCheney-no account filed
May 2015HailCheney-no account filed
October 2013HailCheney-no account filed
July 2013HailCheney-no account filed
July 2013HailCheney-no account filed
May 2012HailCheney-no account filed
May 2012HailCheney-no account filed
April 2011HailCheney-no account filed
June 2011HailCheney-no account filed
June 2011HailCheney-no account filed
June 2011HailCheney-no account filed
June 2011HailCheney-no account filed
May 2010HailCheney-no account filed
June 2009HailCheney-no account filed
March 2009HailCheney-no account filed
May 2008HailCheney-no account filed
May 2005HailCheney-no account filed
April 2003HailCheney-no account filed
March 2003HailCheney-no account filed
May 2003HailCheney-no account filed
March 2002HailCheney-no account filed
May 2002HailCheney-no account filed
May 2002HailCheney-no account filed
April 2002HailCheney-no account filed
September 2002HailCheney-no account filed
September 2002HailCheney-no account filed
May 2001HailCheney-no account filed
May 2001HailCheney-no account filed
March 2000HailCheney-no account filed
September 1999HailCheney-no account filed
May 1999HailCheney-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCheney-no account filed
June 1998HailCheney-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCheney-no account filed
June 1997HailCheney-no account filed
May 1995HailCheney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Saint Paul2.8 miles14
Garden Plain5.6 miles14
Saint Marys9.2 miles14
Anness10.6 miles19
Goddard11.2 miles14
Viola12.5 miles19
Clonmel13.0 miles14
Andale13.7 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 CheneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673261The 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 473976. 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.