Delphos, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67436. It stands on Henry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glasco quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDelphos fell from 359 to 302 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 | 359 | |
| 2020 | 302 | -57 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1892 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Glasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Delphos between 2008 and 2018, burning about 145 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 22 March 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 15 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ottawa County | 201707 |
| 14 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201806 |
| 10 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201804 |
| 10 March 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201803 |
| 22 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Ottawa County | 201705 |
| 22 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Ottawa County | 201706 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
59 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphos in 59 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 35 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | $20,000 | Strong winds damaged a farmstead and destroyed several outbuildings, a corral, and cattle feeder. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Delphos | $500 | This tornado only made contact with the ground three or four times during it's short lifetime and caused only minor damage. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Two outbuildings were destroyed and several trees blew down along the cloud and ottawa county border. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Delphos | - | Several feet of water flooding roads at Main and 7th, and over a section of 90th road. Water also reported to be entering homes on the northwest side of town. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Delphos | - | Road flooded at Volunteer and 80th. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Wind gust was estimated by the public. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Delphos | - | Delayed report of water over some roads in Delphos. 3.7 inches of rain had been reported in less than 3 hours. Additional rainfall was ongoing. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Wind gusts measured. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Wind gusts measured. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Wind gusts measured. |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | This was a delayed report from a trained storm spotter that estimated a 60 mph wind gust. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Delphos | - | Golfball size hail was reported by a trained spotter. Hail damage was sustained to a tractor. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Delphos | - | Eight inches of water flowed across Highway 41, just east of Delphos. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | A spotter reports 65 mph estimated wind gusts and tree limbs down. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Delphos | - | The tornado touched down at Windmill Rd. between 220th and 230th Rds. Significant damage to a row of trees occurred. The tornado then crossed the county line, and moved into Cloud County. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Delphos | - | Hail up to the size of tennis balls fell for several minutes. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | Considerable tree limb damage with one large live tree down. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Delphos | - | Report Relayed via NSSL. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Delphos | - | Report relayed via NSSL. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Delphos | - | Runoff from heavy rains caused flooding in northwestern Republic county for a time. |
| August 2001 | Flood | Delphos | - | Heavy rains caused some water to overflow onto roads near Delphos for a time. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Delphos | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Delphos | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumnerville | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Alfmil | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Brewer | 10.3 miles | 14 | |
| Ada | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lamar | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Minneapolis | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Lindsey | 13.4 miles | 15 | |
| Wells | 15.0 miles | 14 |
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 Delphos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673377 | 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 476142. 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.





