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.
Population over time
2 figuresDwight 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 272 | |
| 2020 | 217 | -55 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1889 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Morris County | 10 |
| 20 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Morris County | 11 |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Morris County | 9 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 5 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 5 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 3 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
| 26 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | $5,000 | Strong winds moved a 400 pound dumpster 15 to 20 feet. A 16 foot car trailer was moved off jack stands. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Report of large tree limbs down. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Dwight | - | Received photo via email of quarter sized hail. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Dwight | - | Nickel sized hail covering the ground. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Wind estimate to around 70 mph. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (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 1999 | Tornado (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 2013 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Dwight | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkerville | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Downing (historical) | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| White City | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Skiddy | 10.8 miles | 16 | |
| Council Grove | 13.7 miles | 16 | |
| Helmick | 15.0 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsey | 15.0 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 Dwight | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2901450 | 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 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.





