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.
Population over time
2 figuresCheney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,094 | |
| 2020 | 2,181 | +87 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1889 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
43 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 239 |
| 15 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 276 |
| 27 June 2017 | Fireworks | 3.0 acres | Sedgwick County | 176 |
| 27 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 240 |
| 24 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 235 |
| 22 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 231 |
| 12 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Sedgwick County | 4074 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
59 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | $600,000 | Major tree damage with some minor damage to bulidings. One garage and two metal buildings were destroyed. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | $25,000 | A semi truck was rolled off the road. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | $10,000 | Metal grain storage building damaged. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | $5,000 | A 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 2016 | Flood | Cheney | $100 | Cheney Fire department reported 1 to 2 feet of water flowing over 375th Street West. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | Public report via X of a 12 inch diameter tree limb broken. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cheney | - | A picture of golf ball sized hail was sent in by the public. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cheney | - | The report was relayed via social media. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | A report was sent via Twitter of an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2020 | Flood | Cheney | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | Four power poles were blown down. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Cheney | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | Reported power outages in Cheney. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter on Highway 54 just inside the county line. |
| September 2009 | Heavy Rain | Cheney | - | Cheney Middle School reported 1.67 inches of rainfall. Report courtesy of KSN TV. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | An off duty KSNW meteorologist reported a 60 mph wind gust in Cheney. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Cheney | - | 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 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Cheney | - | Brief touchdown in open country |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Cheney | - | Several streets were covered by water. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Cheney | - | Several roads were water covered. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | CARPORT BLOWN INTO A TREE. TREE DAMAGE. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cheney | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Cheney | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Garden Plain | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marys | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| Anness | 10.6 miles | 19 | |
| Goddard | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Viola | 12.5 miles | 19 | |
| Clonmel | 13.0 miles | 14 | |
| Andale | 13.7 miles | 14 |
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 Cheney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673261 | 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 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.







