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Durham, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Durham Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67438. The Survey maps it on the Durham quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Durham within Marion County

On record in Durham

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

Durham fell from 112 to 89 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
2010112
202089-23 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Durham between 2015 and 2018, burning about 50 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
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
7 September 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
5 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service85
6 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service22
21 March 2017Debris and open burning40 acresMarion County2017006
17 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service4
5 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresMarion County2017002
31 October 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1610311

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham in 59 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 30 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 2006Tornado (F1)Durham1 hurt, $70,000The tornado moved rapidly northeast, producing F1 damage at two farmsteads. Several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. One person was injured (direct) while traveling on highway K-15, when the tornado rolled their vehicle several times. A semi loaded to 80,000 pounds, traveling directly behind the rolled van, also rolled onto its side. Thankfully, the driver was not injured.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindDurham$500,000There was widespread damage to trees, small buildings and farm equipment across the county. In rural Ramona a 70 foot tall silo was knocked onto a granary shed, destroying a tractor that was inside. One thousand pound straw bales were tossed around. Two cattle were killed by lightning.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Durham$100,000Some tree damage with several power lines down. Two farmsteads were struck causing damage to several barns and feed bins.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Durham$75,000Four outbuildings and two vehicles destroyed.
April 2008Flash FloodDurham$50,000Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall amounts across primarily the northern half of Marion County from the mid-morning into the afternoon hours of April 23rd. Rainfall amounts exceeded 6 inches for some locations, with rainfall rates around 2 inches per hour at times. Hillsboro reported 4.96 inches, and Marion reported 5.36 inches. Widespread flooding occurred across mainly the northern half of Marion County, which prompted numerous road closures. Some roads were covered with nearly 6 feet of water. As a result, several roads and culverts sustained some form of damage, along with some county bridges. Especially hard hit was the town of Durham, when the North Cottonwood River backed up due to a 3.5-foot rise in the Marion Reservoir, flooding portions of the town with up to 18 inches of water. Some homes and businesses received flood damage. Some farmers from around the area stated they had never seen the Cottonwood River that high, although an older gentleman stated he had seen the river higher twice before, most notably in 1951. High water finally subsided by the morning hours of April 24th. Information courtesy of the Marion County Record and the Hillsboro Free Press.
July 2019Flash FloodDurham$30,000Emergency management reported evacuations occurred in the town of Durham due to rapidly rising water along the Cottonwood river.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDurham$7,000Large trees were blown down, blocking the road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDurham$2,000Power lines were reported down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDurham$500A thirty inch tree was broken off about eight feet above the ground.
July 2019Flash FloodDurham$100Emergency management reported water over highway K-15 south of 320th Street.
July 2019Flash FloodDurham$100Kansas Highway 15 south of the Durham was closed due high water.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-Emergency manager estimated wind gusts of 75 mph. Tree damage was reported northwest of Durham.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-Emergency manager reported a measured 63 mph wind gust near 260th and Indigo.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-A large tree was knocked down at 260th and Kanza.
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Durham-An EF1 tornado tracked east and snapped a hardwood tree trunk. Large tree limbs were broken, and boat with trailer on it was toppled over sideways under an old outbuilding.
May 2016FloodDurham-Several roads were closed across the county due to high water.
June 2015FloodDurham-Wide spread low water crossing are covered with water and causing minor inconveniences to travel.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDurham-Reported by a trained spotter.
June 2015Heavy RainDurham-A measured rain amount.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindDurham-The public reported the gust.
September 2014Heavy RainDurham-A COOP observer reported 3.36 inches of rainfall.
April 2014HailDurham-The hail lasted for ten minutes, with the size varying from quarter size to ping pong ball size.
June 2008HailDurham-Report relayed by NSSL Shave project.
June 2008HailDurham-Reported by NSSL Shave project.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Durham-Brief touchdwon in open country.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDurham-4-5 INCH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.
April 2026HailDurham-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed
April 2023HailDurham-no account filed
April 2023HailDurham-no account filed
March 2019HailDurham-no account filed
September 2017HailDurham-no account filed
May 2016HailDurham-no account filed
February 2012HailDurham-no account filed
June 2011HailDurham-no account filed
July 2009HailDurham-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed
June 2006HailDurham-no account filed
May 2006HailDurham-no account filed
May 2005HailDurham-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed
September 2005HailDurham-no account filed
June 2004HailDurham-no account filed
April 2003HailDurham-no account filed
April 2002HailDurham-no account filed
April 2002HailDurham-no account filed
April 2002HailDurham-no account filed
April 2002HailDurham-no account filed
May 2002HailDurham-no account filed
April 2002HailDurham-no account filed
June 2002HailDurham-no account filed
June 2001HailDurham-no account filed
September 1998HailDurham-no account filed
September 1998HailDurham-no account filed
September 1998HailDurham-no account filed
May 1998HailDurham-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDurham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Tampa5.8 miles18
Waldeck6.8 miles15
Lehigh8.8 miles15
Hillsboro9.3 miles15
Pilsen10.0 miles15
Eastshore10.9 miles15
Canada11.0 miles15
Ramona11.7 miles17

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 DurhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2621823The 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 477238. 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.