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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.

Cuba within Republic County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cuba 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.

YearPeople Change
2010156
2020140-16 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2015

Regional 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 burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
19 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1800007
11 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500017
23 February 2020Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1600003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Republic County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2004Thunderstorm WindCuba$30,000Strong 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 2001Thunderstorm WindCuba$5,000Strong winds destroyed a garage.
August 1993HailCuba$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCuba$2,000Strong winds downed power lines near Cuba.
July 2023HailCuba-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
April 2022HailCuba-Quarter sized hail reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCuba-Machine shed and grain bin were blown over.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCuba-Wind gusts measured at mesonet site.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindCuba-A member of the public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Cuba.
June 2009HailCuba-Ground covered by quarter sized hail.
June 2006HailCuba-Report relayed via NSSL.
June 2006HailCuba-Report relayed via NSSL.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Cuba-A tornado touched down briefly in open country.
April 2016HailCuba-no account filed
April 2010HailCuba-no account filed
June 2009HailCuba-no account filed
April 2009HailCuba-no account filed
May 2004HailCuba-no account filed
May 1996HailCuba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Republic 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
Haworth3.9 miles13
Tabor4.9 miles13
Agenda6.7 miles13
Wayne7.6 miles13
Munden8.8 miles13
Belleville9.5 miles13
Talmo10.2 miles13
Narka11.0 miles13

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 CubaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1142868The 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.