Collyer, Kansas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Collyer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67631. The Survey maps it on the Collyer quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,602 feet above sea level.
On record in Collyer
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 3 records
Collyer Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2010
Lipp Barnlisted 2009- St. Michael School & Conventlisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresCollyer fell from 109 to 97 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 | 109 | |
| 2020 | 97 | -12 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Collyer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Oakley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Collyer between 2016 and 2020, burning about 80 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Gove County | 2017009 |
| 29 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 016-057 |
| 14 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 80 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collyer in 80 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 57 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Collyer | - | A social media report of 1 inch hail. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Collyer | - | Quarter size hail was reported by the public. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Collyer | - | From 8 miles south of Collyer, social media reports of multiple roads flooded including 4 feet of water over the Trego County road O near the Trego/Gove County line road. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Collyer | - | Social media reports included multiple pictures of 2-2.25 inch hail stones. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Collyer | - | Rainfall of 4.26 inches was measured. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Collyer | - | This tornado was video taped by a web tower cam but it passed through an area with no trees, fences or buildings. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Collyer | - | The tornado moved out of Gove county and then the tornado turned north as it occluded but never did strike anything to damage. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | Windows were broken by the large hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Vinyl siding was ripped off the home. All windows on the west side of the house were broken by the high wind. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Collyer | - | This tornado did not encounter anything to damage. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Three inch diameter tree branches broken. |
| September 2006 | Heavy Rain | Collyer | - | 5.00" of rain fell. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | A semi truck was blown over on Interstate 70...near exit 120. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Collyer | - | This was small rope-like tornado. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Collyer | - | This tornado did not hit anything. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Collyer | - | This was the second occurrence of golf ball size hail at this location. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | Three inch limbs broken. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Collyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Collyer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voda | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| WaKeeney | 12.7 miles | 13 | |
| Fort Downer | 15.3 miles | 13 | |
| Trego Center | 15.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ogallah | 20.7 miles | 14 | |
| Riga | 25.5 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 Collyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666559 | 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 471355. 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.




