Culver, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Culver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67484. The Survey maps it on the Culver quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCulver fell from 121 to 114 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 | 121 | |
| 2020 | 114 | -7 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1892 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Salina quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Culver quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Culver between 2015 and 2018, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 937 |
| 9 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 62018 |
| 7 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ottawa County | 31 |
| 9 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Saline County | 10 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
47 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culver in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Flood | Culver | $1,200,000 | Widespread flooding in town of Culver. 1.2 million dollars in damage, including the rest of Ottawa County outside of Tescott. |
| September 2025 | Flood | Culver | - | A few streets flooded in Culver. |
| September 2025 | Flood | Culver | - | Water over 90th Rd 1/2 mile south of Coronado Rd north of Culver. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Culver | - | Ping pong ball size hail near the Ottawa - Saline County line. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Estimated 60 mph gust in Culver. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Culver | - | Report of 1 inch hail in Culver. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Estimated 55-65 mph gusts. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Culver | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Culver | - | Ping pong sized hail and 60 mph winds. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Report of 60 mph winds and 6 inch tree limbs down. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Trained spotter reported 70 mph wind gust. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Tin roof rolled back on a building, 6 inch diameter tree limbs and a fence blown down. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Report of 10 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Report of several downed power poles between Tescott and Culver. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Culver | - | Spotter in Culver reports water over many of the roads in town. Heavy rain continuing at time of report. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Culver | - | Numerous roadways were under water, including the intersections at K-18/90th road and Mulberry road/60th road. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Reports of tree limbs down. Sizes were unknown. Wind gust was estimated. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Culver | - | Lasted 5 minutes. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Wind gusts estimated. Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter down. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Wind lasted for 5 minutes. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Wind gusts estimated. Second round of strong wind. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Culver | - | At intersection of K106 and Evergreen road water flowing over road several inches deep for a stretch of 300 yards. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Culver | - | Video shows a brief rope tornado touch down around 533pm CDT nearly 12 minutes prior to the main violent tornado touch down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | Reports of several trees blown down. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Culver | - | Heavy rain flooded 90th Road south of Culver to the Saline County line. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Culver | - | The tornado was reported by several spotters. It occurred over open country with no injuries nor damage reported. The tornado was produced by a mini-supercell. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Culver | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culver | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tescott | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lindsey | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bennington | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Brewer | 10.7 miles | 14 | |
| Minneapolis | 10.8 miles | 15 | |
| Alfmil | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Verdi | 13.6 miles | 16 | |
| Ada | 14.2 miles | 14 |
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 Culver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2527718 | 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 476627. 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.






