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Cunningham, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rural Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67035. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle. 444 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,706 feet above sea level.

Cunningham within Kingman County

Population over time

2 figures

Cunningham fell from 454 to 444 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
2010454
2020444-10 (-2%)

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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham in 2015, burning about 162 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
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
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
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service6296
7 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service276
31 March 2015Debris and open burning160 acresKansas Forest Service3311
4 October 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service7307
29 October 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service8204

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cunningham in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 36 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2017Thunderstorm WindCunningham1 hurtA Fed Ex truck was blown in to the median along Highway 54. The driver was transported to the hospital. There were also 8 power poles south of Cunningham blown over.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindCunningham$100,000A garage was blown down, the roof peeled from an office building resulting in the damaging of computers and other equipment inside, and tree damage was widespread.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCunningham$94,000Ten power poles were blown down and 4 roofs were blow off of out buildings. Winds were estimated at 100 mph. Golf ball sized hail also was reported.
July 2003Tornado (F1)Cunningham$75,000Slow-moving, the tornado extensively damaged two farmsteads, one silo, and, of course, trees.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCunningham$50,000Chaser reported via KSNW Television that strong winds caused damage in Cunningham, mostly in the form of downed tree limbs and minor structural damage. However, the 97-year old Ratcliff building received extensive damage to its exterior (courtesy of the Cunningham Courier).
June 2008HailCunningham$18,000Golf ball sized hail was driven by estimated 100 mph winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCunningham$18,000Several power poles were blown just south of Cunningham.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCunningham$500Large trees were blown down.
September 2018FloodCunningham$100The Ninnescah River flooded the road near southwest 120th Road. the town of Kingman reported 1.71 inches of rainfall.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindCunningham-A large number of branches were blown down. This report was via social media.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Law enforcement reported the gust.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Golf ball sized hail was also reported.
June 2017HailCunningham-Sixty mph winds were also reported.
August 2016HailCunningham-The hail was reported by KAKE Channel 10.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Estimated 70 mph winds were reported.
June 2013HailCunningham-Heavy rains were also reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCunningham-The winds were sustained for about 10 minutes.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Law enforcement reported the stong wind gusts.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Law enforcement relayed the report.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Cunningham-Tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
April 2006HailCunningham-Reported by a KWCH storm chaser.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCunningham-Five-inch diameter limbs downed. (Magnitude based upon comparable damage in Plevna at 1605 CST.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Cunningham-Occurred in the country.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Cunningham-Occurred in a field.
May 2021HailCunningham-no account filed
June 2017HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2016HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2013HailCunningham-no account filed
June 2011HailCunningham-no account filed
June 2011HailCunningham-no account filed
June 2011HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2009HailCunningham-no account filed
July 2009HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2008HailCunningham-no account filed
August 2007HailCunningham-no account filed
March 2007HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2007HailCunningham-no account filed
April 2006HailCunningham-no account filed
April 2006HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2006HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2006HailCunningham-no account filed
April 2005HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2004HailCunningham-no account filed
June 2004HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2002HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2002HailCunningham-no account filed
May 2002HailCunningham-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCunningham-no account filed
March 2001HailCunningham-no account filed
March 2001HailCunningham-no account filed
April 2001HailCunningham-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindCunningham-no account filed
July 2000HailCunningham-no account filed
April 1999HailCunningham-no account filed
April 1999HailCunningham-no account filed
July 1998HailCunningham-no account filed
May 1997HailCunningham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Skellyville2.4 miles13
Penalosa7.8 miles13
Calista7.9 miles13
Saint Leo8.0 miles13
Willowdale11.2 miles13
Nashville14.0 miles15
Zenda16.0 miles15
Kingman16.8 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 CunninghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576676The 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 473942. 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.