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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.

Dunlap within Morris County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dunlap 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.

YearPeople Change
201030
202027-3 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

10 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service44
15 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMorris County8
11 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service25
19 April 2018Debris and open burning900 acresKansas Forest Service18
24 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service9
13 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18
10 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service8
18 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2005Flash FloodDunlap$70,000Fast flowing water closed Dunlap road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDunlap$500A COOP Observer near Dunlap reported two to three inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2005Flash FloodDunlap$500Fast flowing water over 4 mile road near Dunlap.
April 2026Tornado (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 2025HailDunlap-Delayed report from southern Morris County. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023Tornado (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 2021Flash FloodDunlap-Multiple roads closed, including Dunlap Road in the southeastern part of the county.
May 2017Tornado (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 2017Flash FloodDunlap-Dunlap Road was closed due to water across the road.
July 2010FloodDunlap-Rock Creek was reported to be out of its banks near Dunlap.
June 2010Flash FloodDunlap-Dunlap Road near Dunlap and X Avenue near Burdick are closed due to flooding. Highway 149 near Wilsey was inundated with water.
May 2013HailDunlap-no account filed
March 2012HailDunlap-no account filed
March 2012HailDunlap-no account filed
May 2010HailDunlap-no account filed
March 2009HailDunlap-no account filed
May 2008HailDunlap-no account filed
May 2005HailDunlap-no account filed
June 2005HailDunlap-no account filed
May 2002HailDunlap-no account filed
May 2002HailDunlap-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindDunlap-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDunlap-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudDunlap-no account filed
March 1996HailDunlap-no account filed
March 1996HailDunlap-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindDunlap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Council Grove8.9 miles16
Helmick12.9 miles15
Kelso15.4 miles15
Downing (historical)15.8 miles15
Wilsey16.9 miles15
Diamond Springs20.1 miles15
Parkerville20.3 miles15
Dwight22.1 miles15

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 DunlapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2271253The 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.