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Concordia, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Concordia City. It lies in ZIP code area 66901. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Concordia quadrangle. 5,111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,378 feet above sea level.

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Concordia within Cloud County

On record in Concordia

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Concordia fell from 5,395 to 5,111 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
20105,395
20205,111-284 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Concordia between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,608 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
30 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service9
19 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service437
7 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service7
9 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCloud County5
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service3
5 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service136

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this place

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concordia in 87 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 44 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 1993HailConcordia$50,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindConcordia$30,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindConcordia$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds ripped shingles off houses and downed trees in a 4 mile path near Concordia.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindConcordia$10,000Near Clyde, a front porch was ripped off of a new construction home. Also half of a tin roof was ripped off, brick and mortar cracked on all four corners of house, and some rafters cracked and split. A 53 foot trailer was blown onto its side with all the contents spilled-out. Windows were blown out of an old house with steel rod posts and pipes sheered off. The barn roof was lifted up and rafters were broken in the metal shed. The ASOS station at Concordia measured a 67 mph wind gust prior to most of the damage occurring.
May 1996HailConcordia$10,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindConcordia$6,000Thunderstorm winds damaged outbuildings on a farm.
May 1995HailConcordia$5,000no account filed
August 1999LightningConcordia$1,000Lightning struck the city library in Concordia and ignited a fire which did minor damage.
June 1994HailConcordia$500no account filed
June 1994HailConcordia$500no account filed
May 2024HailConcordia-Quarter size hail.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Measured on personal weather station.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Six inch healthy tree limbs down.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Structural damage at the fairgrounds, damage to a building off of Highway 81 and two to three inch tree limbs down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Report of large tree limbs down in town.
April 2022HailConcordia-Hen egg sized hail reported.
March 2022HailConcordia-Quarter sized hail reported.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Measured at mesonet station k5cnc us-81.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Recroded at mesonet station k5cnc us-81.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Large tree limb down, as reported on Facebook. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Tree limb damage with up to 12 inches diameter limbs down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Personal weather station measured a 58 mph wind gust.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindConcordia-A tree was reported down. The size was unknown.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Multiple tree limbs were down across the city. Size and health of limbs were not reported. Time was estimated by radar.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Property owner reported numerous 6 inch diameter Oak limbs blown down. Time was estimated by radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Trees 18 inches in diameter were snapped and numerous 3-5 inch limbs are down.
June 2015FloodConcordia-Numerous streets were flooded in town.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Wind gusts measured.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Large tree down in the city of Concordia.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindConcordia-ASOS in Concordia measured a 61 mph wind gust. A trained spotter also reported 60 mph wind near Clyde.
June 2010HailConcordia-Concordia also reported power outages.
June 2009HailConcordia-Hail lasted for 5 minutes with the largest stone 1.5 inches in diameter.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Law enforcement officer reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Large branches were blown off of trees in Concordia.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindConcordia-ASOS measured 60 mph wind at Concordia airport.
September 2008Flash FloodConcordia-Heavy rain across the town of Concordia lead to flash flooding. Water was reported to be rinning over streets up to the crown of the curb, approximately five inches deep. A trained spotter in Concordia measured 0.75 inches in thirty minutes, and a second reported 2.30 inches in one hour. Other local spotter in the warned area reported a storm total 3.52 inches, and a storm total 4.10 inches.
September 2008HailConcordia-Reported penny sized hail.
June 2008HailConcordia-Two reports of baseball size hail.
June 2008Flash FloodConcordia-Water was reported to be flowing over roadways across portions of Cloud County east of Concordia, including near the intersections of 160th and Union, 260th and Milo, and 145th and Teal. Local newspapers reported that portions of north Broadway Street experieced damage as a result of the flood waters. Just over two inches of rain fell in Concordia.
June 2008HailConcordia-Trained spotters along the path of this cell reported between penny and quareter size hail.
June 2008HailConcordia-Hail from half dollar to golf ball size was reported along the storm's path.
September 2003Flash FloodConcordia-Heavy rains caused runoff that overflowed highway 28 and caused it to be closed for several hours.
September 2003Flash FloodConcordia-Several streets in Concordia were flooded and impassable from heavy rains. Highway 9 had water over the roadway in several areas including near Macyville, southwest of Concordia.
May 1999Flash FloodConcordia-Flooding was reported for a time mostly on roads in the county.
April 2019HailConcordia-no account filed
May 2016HailConcordia-no account filed
May 2015HailConcordia-no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindConcordia-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindConcordia-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindConcordia-no account filed
September 2010HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2010HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2010HailConcordia-no account filed
June 2009HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2009HailConcordia-no account filed
March 2008HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2008HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2008HailConcordia-no account filed
May 2006HailConcordia-no account filed
June 2006HailConcordia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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
Rosaco1.9 miles14
Cook3.1 miles13
Yuma4.8 miles14
Huscher5.0 miles13
Rice5.7 miles13
Macyville10.2 miles16
Jamestown10.7 miles13
Aurora10.9 miles14

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 ConcordiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913996The 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 473311. 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.