Deerfield, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67838. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. 711 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,946 feet above sea level.
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On record in Deerfield
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 3 records
Deerfield State Banklisted 2018
Deerfield Texaco Service Stationlisted 2007
Santa Fe Trail-Kearny County Segment 1listed 2013
Population over time
2 figuresDeerfield grew from 700 to 711 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 | 700 | |
| 2020 | 711 | +11 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1891 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Lakin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Deerfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ulysses quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Ulysses quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield in 2017, burning about 16 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Finney County | 153 |
| 29 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Finney County | 60 |
| 29 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Finney County | 7 |
Storms near this place
60 of 149 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield in 149 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 100 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | $500,000 | Winds blew off an awning to a gas station onto two trucks. The wind also blew out windows at some buildings in Deerfield. Large trees were uprooted in and around the Deerfield area. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Deerfield | $150,000 | Two pivot spinklers were damaged, a 24 x 36 foot shed was blown down and 30 homes had minor roof damage. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | $5,000 | Four inch "live" tree limbs blown down. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Deerfield | - | The Emergency Manager reported 1.75 inch hail. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Irrigation pivot sprinklers were blown over by the high wind. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 2.00 inches was observed. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 1.91 inches was observed. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Deerfield | - | This tornado moved northwest. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Deerfield | - | A brief cone shaped tornado was reported briefly. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Deerfield | - | This tornado did not strike anything. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Tree limbs and a few windows were broken. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Two to four inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 3.70 was reported. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 1.10 was observed. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Winds were blowing as high as 55 mph with the hail. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 mph. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Deerfield | - | The hail was reported to be soft in nature. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Deerfield | - | One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken by 60 mph winds that accompanied the hail. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | One to two inch diameter tree limbs were broken. Quarter sized hail also accompanied the high wind. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Ground was covered by the hail. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Two semi trucks were blown over on highway 50. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 1.18 inches was reported. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | A lot of tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Report from the KSN weatherlab. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | A tree was uprooted in the yard. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 2.75 inches fell overnight. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 2.30 inches fell overnight. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rainfall of 2.50 fell overnight. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Rinfall of 3.80 inches fell overnight. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Two inch diameter tree branches were broken. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | A small shed was blown over |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | The wind gust was recorded by a weather lab |
| April 2001 | Hail | Deerfield | - | On the county line. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | 6 inch tree limbs down |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | KSN weatherlab |
| May 1999 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Also, had five inches of rain. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Window broken out a car. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Deerfield | - | On Finney/Kearny county line. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Hail piled in huge drifts and stripped corn in a two mile wide swath. Hail drifts were still evident 24 hours later. |
| September 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Deerfield | - | Brief touchdown of a small tornado over open farmland. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Deerfield | - | Tornado reported in open farmland by Kansas Highway Patrol. Tornado remained nearly stationary with no damage reported. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Deerfield | - | 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.
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 Deerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2068211 | 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 471602. 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.







