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Denton, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66017. The Survey maps it on the Denton quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

Denton within Doniphan County

On record in Denton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Denton fell from 148 to 130 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
2010148
2020130-18 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Denton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017036
29 August 2020Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018026
9 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015012
6 March 2017Debris and open burning20 acresDoniphan County2017012
23 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresDoniphan County2017019
18 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denton in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDenton$200,000Several barns were destroyed, including the historic Round Barn landmark. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindDenton-Several tree limbs blown down and minor property damage at a residence near Denton.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDenton-An Emergency Manager reported 60 mph winds from the same location as golf ball sized hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDenton-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDenton-A grain bin and an out building were blown on to a road and destroyed.
June 2014Flash FloodDenton-Water was flowing over Highway 20.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Denton-Brief tornado touchdown noted by Doniphan County spotters north of Denton. No damage noted.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDenton-Several trees uprooted and numerous tree limbs down.
April 1995HailDenton-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0)
August 2019HailDenton-no account filed
June 2009HailDenton-no account filed
June 2009HailDenton-no account filed
June 2008HailDenton-no account filed
March 2006HailDenton-no account filed
August 2006HailDenton-no account filed
August 2006HailDenton-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDenton-no account filed
August 2004HailDenton-no account filed
August 2000HailDenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Severance2.6 miles23
Leona4.7 miles19
Bendena4.8 miles27
Purcell4.9 miles20
Moray5.6 miles23
Brenner8.2 miles27
Highland8.8 miles19
Fanning9.1 miles23

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 DentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2734451The 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 484628. 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.