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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.

Conway Springs within Sumner County

Population over time

2 figures

Conway 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,272
20201,086-186 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

13 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service111
1 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service81
10 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service73
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service43
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service39
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service38
21 March 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service36
13 March 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKansas Forest Service30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993Thunderstorm WindConway Springs$5,000Power lines were knocked down.
June 1996HailConway Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindConway Springs-no account filed
April 1994HailConway Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Ewell4.3 miles20
Millerton5.6 miles19
Anson6.2 miles19
Milton7.4 miles19
Suppesville8.3 miles19
Milan9.2 miles20
Mayfield10.5 miles19
Argonia10.8 miles19

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231213The 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.