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Dearing, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fawn Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67340. It stands on Deadman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffeyville West quadrangle. 382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Dearing within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Dearing fell from 431 to 382 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
2010431
2020382-49 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

93 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Dearing between 2015 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 were 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning19
Other causes10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Natural2

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
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMontgomery County1770090
22 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service695
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1820166
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1520136
12 August 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1820167
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1820148
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1820133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dearing in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2007Flash FloodDearing$105,000Law enforcement reported a county road bridge had washed out near Dearing. Several county roads south of Havana were under water. Highway 175 just north Caney was closed due to water flowing over the highway. Several CO-OP observers in the county between 6 and 7.5 inches of rain overnight.
August 2017HailDearing$5,000The hail caused some damage to a pickup truck.
May 2022Heavy RainDearing-The 24 hour rainfall total of 5.0 inches was reported by the public in Dearing, Kansas.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindDearing-The wind gust was reported along highway 166.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Dearing-Brief touchdown in open country.
May 2013Flash FloodDearing-Water was reported across several roads in the Dearing area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDearing-Multiple trees were blown down due to the strong winds. The trees were blocking many of the roads.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Dearing-Remained in the country.
May 1998HailDearing-no account filed
April 1996HailDearing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
West Coffeyville2.7 miles17
Jefferson4.5 miles17
Coffeyville5.3 miles17
Tyro5.9 miles17
Avian6.5 miles17
Blake7.9 miles18
Bolton8.3 miles18
Liberty9.2 miles17

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 DearingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666552The 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 469211. 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.