Delia, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66418. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rossville quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
On record in Delia
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 1 record
- Delia State Banklisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresDelia fell from 169 to 151 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 | 169 | |
| 2020 | 151 | -18 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1889 USGS Topeka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Topeka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Rossville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Delia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 5,449 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Jackson County | 330 |
| 9 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 9 July 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Jackson County | 24 |
| 8 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Jackson County | 20 |
| 18 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 44 |
| 5 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 138 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Horton Agency | 13 MIKE 18 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1820 |
Storms near this place
48 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delia in 48 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 32 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Delia | $100,000 | A quarter mile west of E road and 122nd..fast flowing water up to a foot deep was over the road. A half mile west of E road and 118th...a watershed pond was overflowing across the road with a depth of about 2 feet. Around 3.2 inches of rain reported. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Delia | $50,000 | Street flooding of roads along Soldier Creek. Moderate or greater flooding immediate reach of river vicinity of Delia. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | $5,000 | A 50 foot shed was destroyed. Shingles were blown off of a roof, and a few corn crops were blown down near Rossville in Jackson County. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Delia | - | Storm survey revealed a narrow damage path from what appears to have been a small tornado that developed over the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation Reservation. The tornado destroyed a large Morton style outbuilding and produced minor shingle damage to several homes and a community center. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Delia | - | This segment of the tornado track moved through rural southern Jackson County doing damage to trees along a path that ended in southern parts of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Delia | - | Time was estimated from radar. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Delia | - | Water reported to be running over K Road between 118 and 126 Roads rendering the roadways impassable. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Delia | - | Six inches of water reported to be flowing over 106th Road between G and H Roads. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Delia | - | This was a delayed report. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Delia | - | Citizens also reported that several shingles on their roof were damaged. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | Live four inch diameter tree limbs reported to have been blown down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | Strong winds blew down trees. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delia | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Delia | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Delia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoyt | 13.8 miles | 20 | |
| Mayetta | 14.6 miles | 17 | |
| Birmingham | 19.0 miles | 18 | |
| Circleville | 19.3 miles | 17 | |
| Holton | 19.7 miles | 18 | |
| Soldier | 20.4 miles | 17 | |
| Denison | 20.8 miles | 18 | |
| Carbon (historical) | 25.5 miles | 18 |
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 Delia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666691 | 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 478447. 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.






