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Earlton, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Canville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66720. The Survey maps it on the Earlton quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Earlton within Neosho County

Population over time

2 figures

Earlton grew from 55 to 60 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
201055
202060+5 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

17 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Earlton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 173 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
24 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service623
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018020
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNeosho County581
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNeosho County234
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNeosho County20
3 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service244
29 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service257

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earlton in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindEarlton$100,000Thunderstorm winds up to 65 mph affected areas between roughly Earlton and St. Paul, including the community of Erie, during the late evening hours on the 19th. Corn stalks just east of Earlton were pushed over some, but likely still salvageable. Hay bales were blown around, and a few trees were downed. Additionally, about 3 miles south of Chanute on Elk Road, a wellhouse roof was ripped off and tree limbs were downed. Numerous trees were downed across the area. The Chanute Tribune and Erie Record contributed to this report.
April 1993HailEarlton$50,000no account filed
August 2009LightningEarlton$25,000Lightning reportedly struck a grain bin just east of Earlton. Consequently, a fire erupted, engulfing and eventually destroying the bin. No one was injured. Damage amounts are rough estimates. The Chanute Tribune contributed to this report.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindEarlton$10,000Power lines downed.
August 2008Flash FloodEarlton$100Water was over Kansas Highway 47 between US highway 169 and US highway 59.
July 2021FloodEarlton-A water rescue was reported by the Emergency Manager.
June 2019FloodEarlton-Chase Rd. was flooded between 160th & 180th roads.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEarlton-No damage was reported.
August 2009Flash FloodEarlton-Rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches during the late evening hours on the 19th and early morning hours on the 20th caused flooding generally along and south of a line extending from Earlton to St. Paul. The flooding was rather widespread, but confined mainly to flood prone low-lying areas and low water crossings. However, it was reported that high water topped Highway 169 just west of Earlton. The Chanute Tribune also contributed to this report.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Earlton-A Brief tornado touched down in open country.
June 2002Flash FloodEarlton-Highway 169 flooded 6-8 inches deep.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindEarlton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Urbana4.2 miles20
Chanute6.3 miles20
Thayer6.6 miles19
Rollin6.8 miles19
Shaw8.1 miles19
Galesburg9.8 miles19
Erie12.0 miles21
Odense14.0 miles19

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 EarltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023002The 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 475107. 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.