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Coldwater, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Coldwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67029. The Survey maps it on the Coldwater quadrangle. 687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,106 feet above sea level.

Coldwater within Comanche County

On record in Coldwater

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Coldwater fell from 828 to 687 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
2010828
2020687-141 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

23 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Coldwater between 2015 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2015Natural5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015047
5 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018052
18 September 2015Natural15 acresKansas Forest Service2015051
15 September 2017Natural1.0 acresComanche County2017054
3 July 2017Naturalunder an acreComanche County2017043
29 July 2015Natural2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015038
29 July 2015Natural2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015037
17 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreComanche County2017047

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

60 of 217 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coldwater in 217 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 162 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 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
September 1994Thunderstorm WindColdwater$30,000Thunderstorm winds gustine 80 to 100 mph were reported by the Comanche County Law Enforcement at 2110 CST.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindColdwater$5,000Ten power poles snapped 6 feet above the ground.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindColdwater$5,000A tin roof was blown off a hangar.
June 1994HailColdwater$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindColdwater$500Window blown out of a house.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindColdwater$500Winds blew two large doors off a barn.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindColdwater-An Ambient wind measuring station reported 78 mph gusts.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Social media report of broken windows, downed trees, and downed power poles.
May 2025Tornado (EF3)Coldwater-First tornado of this prolific cyclic supercell with the vortex starting in far northern Comanche County KS and then traveling north-northeast for over 8 miles before ending around 7 miles southeast of Mullinville KS in Kiowa County KS. Maximum width of almost a half mile with peak winds of at least 155 mph (EF3). ||A farm grain cart was tossed/tumbled at least 100 yards, Total destruction of a metal building system. Trees debarked with only stubs of largest branches remaining. Electrical transmission lines were damaged.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Trees uprooted or snapped.
September 2024HailColdwater-A NWS employee reported hail of 1.25 4 miles south of Lake Coldwater.
August 2018Heavy RainColdwater-Rainfall of 3.07 inches was observed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH, at least.
July 2017HailColdwater-Most of the hail was pea sized.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Power poles were blown down by the high wind.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A semi truck was blown over at the intersection of 183 and 160.
June 2014FloodColdwater-Roads along both sides of Coldwater lake were under water.
June 2014Heavy RainColdwater-Rainfall of 2.68 inches was observed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A roof was blown off a building and a vehicle was blown over onto its side.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Numerous trees were blown down by the high wind.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindColdwater-East winds estimated to be 70 MPH destroyed a shed.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindColdwater-The metal roof of the Coldwater laundry building was torn off by the high winds.
November 2012HailColdwater-The hail covered the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A carport was blown down by the strong wind.
August 2010Heavy RainColdwater-Rainfall of 4.07 was observed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Winds were estimated to at least 60 mph as branches were breaking off of trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Three inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Roof damage was reported a a vent was torn off a bus.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Coldwater-This tornado moved north into Kiowa county and caused EF1 damage to trees, pivot sprinklers and a house.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Coldwater-This was the beginning of the Greensburg tornado that eventually grew into a monster killer in Kiowa county (moving into Kiowa county at 2003 CST). In Comanche county it struck some oil tanks and trees causing EF1 damage to those objects. Oil was strewn across pastures and a county road.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Coldwater-This was a satellite tornado that moved into Kiowa county. It was confirmed by both video from storm chasers and by a ground survey. It struck some trees causing EF1 damage.
May 2006HailColdwater-The hail covered the ground.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A tree was blown across the highway near the Clark/Comanche county line.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Two inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
June 2005HailColdwater-The hail covered the ground.
June 2005HailColdwater-Small tree branches were also blown down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindColdwater-A mail truck was blown over
July 2004Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Ten inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by the wind
July 2004Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down by the wind
July 2004Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down across the highway
May 2003Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Power poles were blown down.
May 2002HailColdwater-Hail covered the ground and windows were broken out. Many cars slid off the road in the vicinity due to the hail covering the highway.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Six inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 2002Heavy RainColdwater-Water was over highway 183.
July 2002Heavy RainColdwater-Debris was washed across the highwa.
April 2001Flash FloodColdwater-Water was over 3 county roads. Also, minor basement flooding was reported.
April 2001HailColdwater-Hail covered the ground
July 2000Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Six inch diameter tree limbs broken.
July 2000HailColdwater-At Lake Coldwater.
July 1999Flash FloodColdwater-Three 1/2 inches of water over the road and fences washed out.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindColdwater-Six to eight inch diameter limbs blown down.
July 1997HailColdwater-Location 14 ESE Buttermilk
July 1997HailColdwater-Location 16 ESE Buttermilk
May 2024HailColdwater-no account filed
June 2022HailColdwater-no account filed
August 2019HailColdwater-no account filed
August 2019HailColdwater-no account filed
May 2018HailColdwater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Wilmore7.7 miles13
Protection9.5 miles13
Buttermilk11.5 miles13

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 ColdwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004397The 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 470738. 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.