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Dwight, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 66849. The Survey maps it on the Dwight quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,499 feet above sea level.

Dwight within Morris County

Population over time

2 figures

Dwight fell from 272 to 217 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
2010272
2020217-55 (-20%)

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

22 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dwight between 2015 and 2020, burning about 192 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
20 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMorris County10
20 July 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresMorris County11
11 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresMorris County9
9 March 2018Debris and open burning12 acresKansas Forest Service6
5 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2
5 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKansas Forest Service3
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service5
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKansas Forest Service10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwight in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 21 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDwight$5,000Strong winds moved a 400 pound dumpster 15 to 20 feet. A 16 foot car trailer was moved off jack stands.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDwight-Report of large tree limbs down.
May 2022HailDwight-Received photo via email of quarter sized hail.
May 2022HailDwight-Nickel sized hail covering the ground.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDwight-Wind estimate to around 70 mph.
May 2016Tornado (EF1)Dwight-The 3rd tornado of the day that was spawned by the long lived supercell occurred just east of Dwight and tracked ESE doing damage to barns and power poles along the path. The track is based on local storm reports and radar data with input from Emergency Managers.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Dwight-The same storm that produced the tornado near Burdick produced another tornado that touched down over open country near Dwight and moved northeast 4 miles before it dissipated.
April 2013HailDwight-no account filed
April 2012HailDwight-no account filed
April 2012HailDwight-no account filed
September 2010HailDwight-no account filed
July 2007HailDwight-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDwight-no account filed
April 2006HailDwight-no account filed
April 2006HailDwight-no account filed
April 2006HailDwight-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDwight-no account filed
April 2005HailDwight-no account filed
August 2005HailDwight-no account filed
November 2003HailDwight-no account filed
November 2003HailDwight-no account filed
April 2002HailDwight-no account filed
May 2002HailDwight-no account filed
May 2002HailDwight-no account filed
April 2001HailDwight-no account filed
April 2001HailDwight-no account filed
June 2001HailDwight-no account filed
October 1997Funnel CloudDwight-no account filed
April 1995HailDwight-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
Parkerville6.6 miles15
Downing (historical)7.3 miles15
Kelso7.7 miles15
White City8.3 miles15
Skiddy10.8 miles16
Council Grove13.7 miles16
Helmick15.0 miles15
Wilsey15.0 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 DwightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901450The 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 485452. 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.