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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.

Circleville within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Circleville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010170
2020153-17 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

19 since 2015

Regional 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
10 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service45
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service36
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service42
8 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service17
8 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service20
22 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service36
22 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service38
2 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Flash FloodCircleville$250,000Water 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 1999Flash FloodCircleville$80,000Heavy rains in a short time period caused flash flooding which damaged several roads and bridges and did extensive crop damage.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Circleville$75,000This 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 1994Thunderstorm WindCircleville$50,000Winds estimated around 75 mph knocked down trees, power lines and damaged some buildings in the Circleville, Soldier and Whiting area.
April 2020HailCircleville-Nickel sized hail reported.
April 2020HailCircleville-Half dollar sized hail reported.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCircleville-Tree trunk was snapped, although the size was unknown.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCircleville-Tree limbs also coming down, sizes unknown.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindCircleville-Tree limb with 12 inch diameter down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCircleville-A trained spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust.
May 2019HailCircleville-no account filed
May 2019HailCircleville-no account filed
April 2018HailCircleville-no account filed
May 2014HailCircleville-no account filed
June 2013HailCircleville-no account filed
June 2005HailCircleville-no account filed
July 2002HailCircleville-no account filed
July 2002HailCircleville-no account filed
July 2002HailCircleville-no account filed
June 2001HailCircleville-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindCircleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Soldier5.9 miles17
Holton7.1 miles18
Netawaka9.9 miles17
Birmingham11.6 miles18
Mayetta13.7 miles17
Carbon (historical)14.0 miles18
Whiting14.2 miles18
Denison14.6 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 CirclevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2221964The 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.