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Corning, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Illinois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66417. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

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Corning within Nemaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Corning grew from 157 to 212 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
2010157
2020212+55 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

31 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Corning between 2000 and 2020, burning about 527 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service92715
10 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service61018
10 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNemaha County13
4 April 2016Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service4042016
19 April 2001Debris and open burning22 acresHorton AgencyMCCAULEY
15 April 2001Debris and open burning160 acresHorton AgencySPOOK
10 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresHorton AgencyTRUST
9 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service30918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corning in 62 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 3 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCorning$25,000Trained spotters throughout Nemaha County reported 70 to 80 mph wind gusts associated with a strong storm that passed through the county. A large silo and many trees were blown over near Centralia. Two Barns, an outbuilding, and trees were destroyed near Corning.
March 2026HailCorning-Quarter size hail fell in the town of Corning. Report relayed from emergency management.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCorning-Estimated by trained spotter.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCorning-Report of several large trees at least a foot in diameter blown down.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCorning-Several tree limbs blown down of various sizes.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCorning-Mesonet station reported a wind gust of 77 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCorning-Kansas state mesonet reported a wind gust of 62 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCorning-Trained spotter estimated a 70 mph wind gust.
July 2023HailCorning-Quarter sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCorning-Wind estimated at 60 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCorning-Numerous 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCorning-Report of 60 mph wind gust.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCorning-Trained spotted reports 70 mph wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCorning-Estimated wind gust.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCorning-Wind gust estimated to 60 mph.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCorning-Wind gust to around 60 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCorning-Estimated wind gust.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCorning-Sustained winds of 60 MPH with gusts of 70 MPH or greater.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCorning-Time estimated by radar.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCorning-Wind gust estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCorning-Estimated wind gust.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCorning-Pockets of wind damage including downed power lines, large trees down, and heavily damaged barns and outbuildings.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCorning-Wind gusts estimated.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCorning-Winds estimated.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Corning-The resident of the EF-1 house south of the EF-3 farm described seeing several sub-tornadoes along with the main one. It appears that a smaller satellite tornado hit this location producing EF1 damage to the south of the main strong tornado. This would have been the 3rd tornado associated with this supercell.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Corning-Brief touchdown with house and tree damage. This was the last tornado associated with the supercell thunderstorm that produced the strong tornado to the west of Corning earlier.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCorning-A trained spotter near Corning reported a 60 mph wind.
March 2009HailCorning-Hail covering the ground.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCorning-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2006HailCorning-Several reports from spotters and county officials of 0.88 to 1.25 inch hail in Corning.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCorning-3 inch diameter tree branches down.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Corning-Very weak tornado briefly touched down. It caused little to no damage as it traveled across open country.
March 2020HailCorning-no account filed
August 2019HailCorning-no account filed
May 2016HailCorning-no account filed
May 2015HailCorning-no account filed
May 2013HailCorning-no account filed
June 2012HailCorning-no account filed
May 2011HailCorning-no account filed
May 2011HailCorning-no account filed
June 2011HailCorning-no account filed
March 2009HailCorning-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
July 2006HailCorning-no account filed
April 2005HailCorning-no account filed
April 2005HailCorning-no account filed
April 2005HailCorning-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
June 2002HailCorning-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Goff5.2 miles17
Kelly5.7 miles14
America City5.8 miles14
Centralia7.0 miles14
Bancroft7.6 miles17
Beckerville7.8 miles14
Ontario10.0 miles17
Neuchatel11.0 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 CorningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2015703The 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 473218. 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.