Dunlap, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 66846. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Americus quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.
On record in Dunlap
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 1 record
Dunlap Colored Cemeterylisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresDunlap fell from 30 to 27 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 | 30 | |
| 2020 | 27 | -3 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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 Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eskridge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Americus quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dunlap between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,053 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 44 |
| 15 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Morris County | 8 |
| 11 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 900 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 24 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 13 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 10 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 18 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Dunlap | $70,000 | Fast flowing water closed Dunlap road. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunlap | $500 | A COOP Observer near Dunlap reported two to three inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Dunlap | $500 | Fast flowing water over 4 mile road near Dunlap. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Dunlap | - | NWS damage survey revealed a small tornado did damage to a single family home and a few outbuildings and cabins on the northeast side of Lake Kahola. The short damage path was discontinuous with portions of the short track having been untouched. The greatest degree of damage occurred to outbuildings that were destroyed and walls were tossed into another cabin. This tornado was rated a EF1 with winds to around 110 mph. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Dunlap | - | Delayed report from southern Morris County. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Dunlap | - | Results of an NWS damage survey revealed tree damage and damage to a home approximately 3 miles SSW of Dunlap, Kansas. The home had portions of the roof removed and windows broken. This appeared to be the end of the tornado track that moved north out of Chase County. The tornado appears to have crossed from Chase into Morris County around 905pm and ended around 908 pm CDT based on radar data. Based on DOD to DI winds estimated to be around 95 mph. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Dunlap | - | Multiple roads closed, including Dunlap Road in the southeastern part of the county. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Dunlap | - | A chaser reported a rope tornado that lasted 1-2 mins in open country approximately 5 miles west of Dunlap in southeast Morris County. No damage was reported. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Dunlap | - | Dunlap Road was closed due to water across the road. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Dunlap | - | Rock Creek was reported to be out of its banks near Dunlap. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Dunlap | - | Dunlap Road near Dunlap and X Avenue near Burdick are closed due to flooding. Highway 149 near Wilsey was inundated with water. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Dunlap | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunlap | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council Grove | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Helmick | 12.9 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 15.4 miles | 15 | |
| Downing (historical) | 15.8 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsey | 16.9 miles | 15 | |
| Diamond Springs | 20.1 miles | 15 | |
| Parkerville | 20.3 miles | 15 | |
| Dwight | 22.1 miles | 15 |
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 Dunlap | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2271253 | 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 477177. 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.






