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.
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
- Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1listed 1987
- Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2listed 1987
Population over time
2 figuresDenton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 148 | |
| 2020 | 130 | -18 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Denton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Doniphan County | 2017036 |
| 29 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 27 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018026 |
| 9 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015012 |
| 6 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Doniphan County | 2017012 |
| 23 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Doniphan County | 2017019 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Doniphan County | 2017015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | $200,000 | Several barns were destroyed, including the historic Round Barn landmark. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | Several tree limbs blown down and minor property damage at a residence near Denton. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | An Emergency Manager reported 60 mph winds from the same location as golf ball sized hail. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | A grain bin and an out building were blown on to a road and destroyed. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Denton | - | Water was flowing over Highway 20. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Denton | - | Brief tornado touchdown noted by Doniphan County spotters north of Denton. No damage noted. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | Several trees uprooted and numerous tree limbs down. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Denton | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Denton | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Denton | - | 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.
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 Denton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2734451 | 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 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.









