Detroit, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67410. The Survey maps it on the Chapman quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDetroit fell from 114 to 102 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 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 102 | -12 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Chapman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Detroit between 2009 and 2018, burning about 893 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Dickinson County | 543 |
| 25 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7240 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dickinson County | 204 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 3637 |
| 31 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 375 acres | Kansas Counties | DETROIT |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 5304 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Detroit: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Falls Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| P.W. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Detroit in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Detroit | $50,000 | High winds and large hail produced widespread damage in the area. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Detroit | $30,000 | High winds occurred with the hail and knocked down trees. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Detroit | - | Video of a small brief land spout type tornado was provided. The eyewitness said the feature lasted around one minute as best they could tell. No known damage. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Detroit | - | Golf ball sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Detroit | - | Baseball sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Detroit | - | Baseball sized hail reported. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Detroit | - | Mping report. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Detroit | - | Estimated wind gust of 60-70 MPH. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Detroit | - | Reported on Interstate 70. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Detroit | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Detroit | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Detroit | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Detroit | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Moonlight | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Abilene | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Chapman | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Pearl | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Buckeye | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Sutphen | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Sand Spring | 8.9 miles | 17 |
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 Detroit | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3887786 | 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 485450. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






