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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.

Delphos within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Delphos 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.

YearPeople Change
2010359
2020302-57 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

10 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
22 March 2008Debris and open burning42 acresCloud Countynot named
22 March 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCloud Countynot named
15 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOttawa County201707
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service201806
10 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service201804
10 March 2018Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service201803
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOttawa County201705
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOttawa County201706

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

59 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2004Thunderstorm WindDelphos$20,000Strong winds damaged a farmstead and destroyed several outbuildings, a corral, and cattle feeder.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Delphos$500This tornado only made contact with the ground three or four times during it's short lifetime and caused only minor damage.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Two outbuildings were destroyed and several trees blew down along the cloud and ottawa county border.
July 2020Flash FloodDelphos-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 2020Flash FloodDelphos-Road flooded at Volunteer and 80th.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Wind gust was estimated by the public.
July 2018Flash FloodDelphos-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 2016Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Estimated wind gust.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Wind gusts measured.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Wind gusts measured.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Wind gusts measured.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindDelphos-This was a delayed report from a trained storm spotter that estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2010HailDelphos-Golfball size hail was reported by a trained spotter. Hail damage was sustained to a tractor.
July 2010FloodDelphos-Eight inches of water flowed across Highway 41, just east of Delphos.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindDelphos-A spotter reports 65 mph estimated wind gusts and tree limbs down.
May 2007Tornado (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 2006HailDelphos-Hail up to the size of tennis balls fell for several minutes.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDelphos-Considerable tree limb damage with one large live tree down.
June 2006HailDelphos-Report Relayed via NSSL.
June 2006HailDelphos-Report relayed via NSSL.
September 2003Flash FloodDelphos-Runoff from heavy rains caused flooding in northwestern Republic county for a time.
August 2001FloodDelphos-Heavy rains caused some water to overflow onto roads near Delphos for a time.
April 2017HailDelphos-no account filed
May 2016HailDelphos-no account filed
June 2015HailDelphos-no account filed
August 2014HailDelphos-no account filed
May 2013HailDelphos-no account filed
February 2012HailDelphos-no account filed
February 2012HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2012HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2012HailDelphos-no account filed
May 2011HailDelphos-no account filed
September 2009HailDelphos-no account filed
September 2009HailDelphos-no account filed
September 2006HailDelphos-no account filed
June 2005HailDelphos-no account filed
February 2004HailDelphos-no account filed
February 2004HailDelphos-no account filed
March 2004HailDelphos-no account filed
March 2004HailDelphos-no account filed
July 2004HailDelphos-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDelphos-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDelphos-no account filed
July 2003HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
May 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
April 2002HailDelphos-no account filed
July 2001HailDelphos-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDelphos-no account filed
May 1999Flash FloodDelphos-no account filed
May 1999HailDelphos-no account filed
July 1998HailDelphos-no account filed
June 1998HailDelphos-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudDelphos-no account filed
May 1997HailDelphos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Sumnerville5.6 miles14
Alfmil10.1 miles14
Brewer10.3 miles14
Ada10.5 miles14
Lamar10.5 miles14
Minneapolis11.0 miles15
Lindsey13.4 miles15
Wells15.0 miles14

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 DelphosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673377The 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.