Circleville, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66416. The Survey maps it on the Circleville quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCircleville fell from 170 to 153 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 | 170 | |
| 2020 | 153 | -17 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Circleville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 74 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 45 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 42 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 20 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 38 |
| 2 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Circleville in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Circleville | $250,000 | Water was reported to be running over roadways across portions of the county. M Road was littered with debris as a result of water flowing over the road. Several raods were deemed impassable. Portions of N Road sunk or developed large holes. The backwall of a bridge collapsed near the intersection of 246 and N Roads. Rainfall reports near the roadways most significantly affected by the heavy rainfall included eight inches of rain in the Whiting area, and four inches to the north of Holton. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Circleville | $80,000 | Heavy rains in a short time period caused flash flooding which damaged several roads and bridges and did extensive crop damage. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Circleville | $75,000 | This F0 tornado touched down 3.5 miles northeast of Circleville, damaging some outbuildings and trees. It countinued moving northeast for 10 miles through Jackson County, passing through the northwest side of Netawaka before crossing into Brown County approximately 3 miles north of Whiting. At times it was 100 yards wide, and was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm. It caused approximately 75,000 dollars damage to outbuildings. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | $50,000 | Winds estimated around 75 mph knocked down trees, power lines and damaged some buildings in the Circleville, Soldier and Whiting area. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Circleville | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Circleville | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | - | Tree trunk was snapped, although the size was unknown. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | - | Tree limbs also coming down, sizes unknown. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | - | Tree limb with 12 inch diameter down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | - | A trained spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Circleville | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soldier | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Holton | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| Netawaka | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Birmingham | 11.6 miles | 18 | |
| Mayetta | 13.7 miles | 17 | |
| Carbon (historical) | 14.0 miles | 18 | |
| Whiting | 14.2 miles | 18 | |
| Denison | 14.6 miles | 18 |
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 Circleville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2221964 | 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 473452. 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.








