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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.

Delia within Jackson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Delia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010169
2020151-18 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

40 since 2002

Regional 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJackson County330
9 August 2018Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service51
9 July 2017Smoking1.0 acresJackson County24
8 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County20
18 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service44
5 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service138
5 April 2018Debris and open burning40 acresHorton Agency13 MIKE 18
28 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service1820

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

48 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodDelia$100,000A 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 2007FloodDelia$50,000Street flooding of roads along Soldier Creek. Moderate or greater flooding immediate reach of river vicinity of Delia.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindDelia$5,000A 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 2022Tornado (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 2019Tornado (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 2017HailDelia-Time was estimated from radar.
April 2009Flash FloodDelia-Water reported to be running over K Road between 118 and 126 Roads rendering the roadways impassable.
April 2009Flash FloodDelia-Six inches of water reported to be flowing over 106th Road between G and H Roads.
June 2009HailDelia-This was a delayed report.
July 2008HailDelia-Citizens also reported that several shingles on their roof were damaged.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDelia-Live four inch diameter tree limbs reported to have been blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDelia-Strong winds blew down trees.
July 2017HailDelia-no account filed
April 2011HailDelia-no account filed
April 2011HailDelia-no account filed
June 2011HailDelia-no account filed
June 2011HailDelia-no account filed
June 2011HailDelia-no account filed
April 2010HailDelia-no account filed
May 2010HailDelia-no account filed
May 2010HailDelia-no account filed
July 2008HailDelia-no account filed
April 2005HailDelia-no account filed
June 2005HailDelia-no account filed
October 2005HailDelia-no account filed
October 2005HailDelia-no account filed
September 2005HailDelia-no account filed
July 2004HailDelia-no account filed
July 2004HailDelia-no account filed
July 2004HailDelia-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
March 2002HailDelia-no account filed
May 2002HailDelia-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
July 2002HailDelia-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
July 2002HailDelia-no account filed
June 2001HailDelia-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
May 2000HailDelia-no account filed
May 2000HailDelia-no account filed
May 2000HailDelia-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
May 2000HailDelia-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDelia-no account filed
August 2000HailDelia-no account filed
May 1998HailDelia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hoyt13.8 miles20
Mayetta14.6 miles17
Birmingham19.0 miles18
Circleville19.3 miles17
Holton19.7 miles18
Soldier20.4 miles17
Denison20.8 miles18
Carbon (historical)25.5 miles18

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 DeliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666691The 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.