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Chetopa, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Chetopa City. It lies in ZIP code area 67336. It stands on Labette Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chetopa quadrangle. 929 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Chetopa within Labette County

Population over time

2 figures

Chetopa fell from 1,125 to 929 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
20101,125
2020929-196 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Chetopa between 2015 and 2017, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
1 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service21
29 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
16 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service36
12 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service29
9 February 2017Debris and open burning28 acresLabette County17006
8 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette County

Storms near this place

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chetopa in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 17 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 12 injuries. 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
April 2006Tornado (F1)Chetopa12 hurt, $225,000An F1 tornado entered Labette County from Oklahoma near Victory road about 3 miles southwest of Chetopa. The tornado tracked to the east-northeast where it struck 2 homes and a mobile home. The mobile home was destroyed and the 2 other homes were damaged. Twelve minor injuries occurred when the tornado damaged the homes and destroyed the mobile home south of Chetopa. The tornado also flipped a tractor trailer on highway 59. The tornado exited Labette County about 1 mile south of highway 166 and moved into Crawford County.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindChetopa$250,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindChetopa$30,000Numerous trees were knocked down across town from winds estimated at 60 mph. Some of the trees fell on outbuildings and vehicles damaging them.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindChetopa$25,000Barn destroyed.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindChetopa$25,000Numerous trees uprooted and fell onto power lines with a couple power poles cracked or broken in the process. The resulting power outage, which affected the entire town, lasted about one hour. Time is estimated based on arrival time of thunderstorms into northward-neighboring Neosho County.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindChetopa$15,000A few small outbuildings were damaged, and a few power poles were downed.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindChetopa$15,000Stand alone garage collapsed onto new truck.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindChetopa$10,000Power lines and power poles downed. The most significant: A power pole containing a transformer. (Parsons Sun.)
November 2021Thunderstorm WindChetopa$5,000Tree limbs and a couple of road signs were blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindChetopa$5,000A metal roof was torn off a barn along with downed power lines.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindChetopa$2,000A power pole was blown down in Chetopa.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindChetopa-A tree fell onto a house from the strong winds. There were two minor injuries, but they were treated on scene. No one was transported to the hospital.
May 2024Funnel CloudChetopa-Reported of a brief funnel cloud over the Chetopa area. Did not last long and dissipated quickly.
July 2020HailChetopa-Report via Twitter.
May 2019Flash FloodChetopa-High water flooded an underpass on U.S. Highway 166 just west of the junction with U.S. Highway 59.
May 2019Flash FloodChetopa-Water was reported flowing over Highway 166 in town.
April 2017Flash FloodChetopa-Flash flooding occurred on Highway 166 west of Chetopa. Highway 166 would likely be closed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindChetopa-Several trees and power lines were reported down across the town.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindChetopa-Winds were estimated at 65 mph.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Chetopa-Very brief tornado touchdown over open country. A dust cloud at the surface was noted. Tornado width was 50 yards.
May 2015FloodChetopa-Several streets in town were flooded but it was hard to determine the depth.
May 2010HailChetopa-Baseball size hail fell near the State Line near Highway 59 south of Chetopa.
May 2010FloodChetopa-Relatively minor flooding occurred on various flood-prone, rural roads countywide. Damage estimates, if any, are unknown.
May 2009Flash FloodChetopa-Highway 166 at the Highway 59 junction near Chetopa was impassable due to high water. Additionally, numerous other roads were closed in and around Chetopa. Property and crop damage estimates are unknown.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Chetopa-The tornado briefly touched down in an open area and did not cause any damage. The report came from the county sheriff.
May 2006Flash FloodChetopa-Local law enforcement officials reported the intersection of Highway 166 and Trego Road was covered with 6 inches of water.
May 2006Flash FloodChetopa-Local law enforcement reported that the junction of Highway 166 and Highway 59 just north of Chetopa was under 2 feet of water.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindChetopa-No damage reported.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Chetopa-Brief event.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindChetopa-Downed trees blocked Highway 59 between Chetopa and Oswego.
July 2000Flash FloodChetopa-Slow-moving thunderstorms producing an estimated 5 inches of rain flooded Highway 166 resulting in it's closure for nearly 3 hours.
April 2026HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2022HailChetopa-no account filed
May 2020HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2020HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2015HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2012HailChetopa-no account filed
May 2010HailChetopa-no account filed
July 2007HailChetopa-no account filed
March 2006HailChetopa-no account filed
March 2006HailChetopa-no account filed
May 2006HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2005HailChetopa-no account filed
April 2005HailChetopa-no account filed
December 2002HailChetopa-no account filed
June 1998HailChetopa-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindChetopa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Labette 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
Bartlett6.5 miles20
Oswego9.1 miles20
Stover10.9 miles20
Labette14.2 miles20
Edna14.4 miles18
Garvin15.2 miles20
Altamont15.2 miles18
Montana16.5 miles18

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 ChetopaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2202542The 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 469285. 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.