Conway Springs, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67031. The Survey maps it on the Conway Springs quadrangle. 1,086 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresConway Springs fell from 1,272 to 1,086 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 | 1,272 | |
| 2020 | 1,086 | -186 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1889 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000, 10 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Conway Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Conway Springs in 2015, burning about 107 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 111 |
| 1 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 81 |
| 10 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 73 |
| 30 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 43 |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 38 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 13 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 30 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conway Springs in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conway Springs | $5,000 | Power lines were knocked down. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Conway Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conway Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Conway Springs | - | 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.
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 Conway Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231213 | 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 470270. 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.






