Cuba, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66940. The Survey maps it on the Cuba quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,581 feet above sea level.
On record in Cuba
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 1 record
Cuba Blacksmith Shoplisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresCuba fell from 156 to 140 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 | 156 | |
| 2020 | 140 | -16 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1893 USGS Washington quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Cuba quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cuba between 2015 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800007 |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500017 |
| 23 February 2020 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1600003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $30,000 | Strong winds blew a 300 gallon fuel tank on top of a car. A barn was moved 12 feet off its foundation, and several feed bins were blown on top of the barn. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $5,000 | Strong winds destroyed a garage. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Cuba | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $2,000 | Strong winds downed power lines near Cuba. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cuba | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Cuba | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | Machine shed and grain bin were blown over. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | Wind gusts measured at mesonet site. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | A member of the public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Cuba. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | Ground covered by quarter sized hail. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cuba | - | Report relayed via NSSL. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cuba | - | Report relayed via NSSL. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Cuba | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Cuba | - | 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 Cuba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1142868 | 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 472855. 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.





