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Douglass, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Douglass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67039. The Survey maps it on the Douglass quadrangle. 1,555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Douglass within Butler County

On record in Douglass

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Douglass fell from 1,700 to 1,555 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
20101,700
20201,555-145 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

41 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Douglass between 2002 and 2020, burning about 889 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCowley County2017155
25 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresButler County92
25 July 2017Debris and open burning12 acresButler County326
13 July 2017Natural1.0 acresButler County84
9 May 2018Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service85
7 May 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresKansas Forest Service278
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2006Debris and open burning10 acresCowley Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

60 of 113 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglass in 113 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 55 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$75,000The emergency manager reported two mobile homes just northeast of town were destroyed.
September 2008Flash FloodDouglass$55,000Local broadcast media reported that a mobile home park was being evacuated due to high water in the town of Douglass.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$50,000A large barn was destroyed by the damaging winds.
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Douglass$30,000A tornado was on the ground for 5 minutes and produced several power flashes. One home and some outbuildings sustained damage.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$20,000Wind damage occurred to a barn, an outbuilding and to the main house.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDouglass$20,000Wind gusts estimated at 100 mph blew down numerous trees and removed roofs to several sheds.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDouglass$15,000Butler County Emergency Management relayed a report of a destroyed barn. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDouglass$10,000There were reports of downed power lines along Highway 77 on the north side of Douglass.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDouglass$10,000Two to four inch diameter trees were reported down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$5,000Damage occurred to numerous structures.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$5,000Damage occurred to a barn.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDouglass$5,000A large tree was broken at the base. The tree diameter was 17 inches, but the tree was dying due to the hollowed out portion of the trunk.
April 1994HailDouglass$5,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDouglass$5,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglass$2,500The emergency manager confirmed that several limbs were downed. Amateur radio also reported that a few light poles were downed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDouglass$2,000The winds uprooted a 60 foot tall, 2 foot diameter tree.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDouglass$1,000Tree with 1.5 inch diameter trunk uprooted and fell onto elementary school. Damage to school unspecified.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDouglass$500The winds knocked down ten inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2010FloodDouglass$100Low lying areas around town were flooded.
November 2025HailDouglass-A spotter reported lots of dime to quarter-sized hail resulting in about one to two inches of hail accumulation.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Tree branches up to 10 inches in diameter were reported down. A car port was flipped, and a power line was down.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Trained spotter for the county in the Douglass area reported an estimated 60 mph gust as the storm moved through.
April 2024HailDouglass-Quarter sized hail and 50 mph winds reported.
April 2023HailDouglass-This was a spotter report relayed by emergency management.
June 2023Heavy RainDouglass-Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.33 inches.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Relayed via the Emergency Manager.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Douglass-Significant tree damage was noted across the community. The only structure that took any damage was one building that had half of it's roof peeled off.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglass-No damage was reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Limbs were blown down. Torrential rains also occurred.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglass-No damage was reported.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Douglass-Delayed report of a tornado touchdown north of town and west of Highway 77.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDouglass-A trained spotter estimated the gust.
October 2013FloodDouglass-Street flooding occurred in Douglass.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindDouglass-No damage reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter along with one half inch sized hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDouglass-A fence was blown down and some vinyl trim was blown off of a house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDouglass-The public reported the strong winds.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Penny sized hail also occurred with the high winds.
July 2006HailDouglass-In addition to the hail, 55 mph winds were reported.
May 2005HailDouglass-Occurred on North side of town.
May 2002Flash FloodDouglass-South Elm under water. Flash flooding threatening trailer park.
May 2002Flash FloodDouglass-Many streets flooded on south side of town with two vehicles submerged. In addition, six trailer homes surrrounded by flash flooding.
May 2002Flash FloodDouglass-Eight Mile Creek overflowed one mile north of the Butler/Cowley county line.
June 2002Flash FloodDouglass-Most roads in and around town flooded.
June 2002Flash FloodDouglass-Some roads flooded 3-5 inches deep.
June 2002Flash FloodDouglass-Indianola/210th St. intersection flooded 1 foot deep.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Large limbs blown down.
September 2000HailDouglass-Occurred on Butler/Cowley county line.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDouglass-SHINGLES BLOWN OFF ROOFS, & 6 INCH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindDouglass-Greater than 60 mph winds were reported by the fire department in Andover. Several four inch diameter trees were uprooted in Douglass.
April 2026HailDouglass-no account filed
May 2024HailDouglass-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDouglass-no account filed
June 2017HailDouglass-no account filed
June 2017HailDouglass-no account filed
August 2017HailDouglass-no account filed
August 2017HailDouglass-no account filed
August 2017HailDouglass-no account filed
May 2016HailDouglass-no account filed
April 2014HailDouglass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Gordon4.9 miles15
Salter6.7 miles16
Smileyville7.0 miles15
Rose Hill7.0 miles15
Bois d' Arc7.0 miles15
Bloomington8.5 miles14
Augusta11.7 miles15
Lakeview Heights12.2 miles19

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 DouglassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901371The 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 481864. 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.