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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.

Culver within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Culver 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.

YearPeople Change
2010121
2020114-7 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service937
9 June 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service62018
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOttawa County31
9 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresSaline County10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

47 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025FloodCulver$1,200,000Widespread flooding in town of Culver. 1.2 million dollars in damage, including the rest of Ottawa County outside of Tescott.
September 2025FloodCulver-A few streets flooded in Culver.
September 2025FloodCulver-Water over 90th Rd 1/2 mile south of Coronado Rd north of Culver.
May 2024HailCulver-Ping pong ball size hail near the Ottawa - Saline County line.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCulver-Estimated 60 mph gust in Culver.
May 2024HailCulver-Report of 1 inch hail in Culver.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCulver-Estimated 55-65 mph gusts.
May 2022HailCulver-Half dollar sized hail reported.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindCulver-Report of 60 mph wind gust.
September 2022HailCulver-Ping pong sized hail and 60 mph winds.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCulver-Report of 60 mph winds and 6 inch tree limbs down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCulver-Trained spotter reported 70 mph wind gust.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCulver-Tin roof rolled back on a building, 6 inch diameter tree limbs and a fence blown down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCulver-Report of 10 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCulver-Report of several downed power poles between Tescott and Culver.
May 2020Flash FloodCulver-Spotter in Culver reports water over many of the roads in town. Heavy rain continuing at time of report.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCulver-Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCulver-Estimated wind gust.
September 2018Flash FloodCulver-Numerous roadways were under water, including the intersections at K-18/90th road and Mulberry road/60th road.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCulver-Reports of tree limbs down. Sizes were unknown. Wind gust was estimated.
April 2016HailCulver-Lasted 5 minutes.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCulver-Wind gusts estimated. Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCulver-Wind lasted for 5 minutes.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCulver-Wind gusts estimated. Second round of strong wind.
May 2013Flash FloodCulver-At intersection of K106 and Evergreen road water flowing over road several inches deep for a stretch of 300 yards.
May 2013Tornado (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 2013Thunderstorm WindCulver-Reports of several trees blown down.
June 2011FloodCulver-Heavy rain flooded 90th Road south of Culver to the Saline County line.
September 2006Tornado (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 2017HailCulver-no account filed
June 2017HailCulver-no account filed
September 2017HailCulver-no account filed
September 2017HailCulver-no account filed
June 2015HailCulver-no account filed
May 2012HailCulver-no account filed
July 2012HailCulver-no account filed
June 2011HailCulver-no account filed
September 2009HailCulver-no account filed
June 2004HailCulver-no account filed
April 2002HailCulver-no account filed
April 2002HailCulver-no account filed
May 1998HailCulver-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Culver-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCulver-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCulver-no account filed
June 1996HailCulver-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCulver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Tescott6.7 miles14
Lindsey9.5 miles15
Bennington9.7 miles14
Brewer10.7 miles14
Minneapolis10.8 miles15
Alfmil11.3 miles14
Verdi13.6 miles16
Ada14.2 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 CulverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2527718The 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.