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Edgerton, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Edgerton City. It lies in ZIP code area 66021. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. 1,748 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Edgerton within Johnson County

On record in Edgerton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Edgerton grew from 1,671 to 1,748 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
20101,671
20201,748+77 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

43 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Edgerton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 187 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County2550120
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County2530128
29 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2410135
21 August 2015Arson/incendiarism15 acresKansas Forest Service284
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2140128
9 July 2018Fireworks5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1900094
5 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1860098
3 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1840195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgerton in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
September 1993HailEdgerton$500,000Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of baseballs and 60 knot winds throughout parts of western and southern Johnson County. Hail broke numerous windows and heavily damaged roofs and automobiles. Damage was also reported in Clare.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$10,000A 40 foot by 80 foot barn was destroyed by a microburst near Edgerton. Nearby power poles were also heavily damaged and 8 to 10 inch tree limbs were also torn off of trees.
April 1995HailEdgerton$10,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$3,000A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.)
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$2,000Severe thunderstorms downed several large tree limbs in Edgerton, and produced dime size hail in Stillwell, and nickel size hail in Stanley.
March 2026HailEdgerton-Quarter sized hail reported in Edgerton.
May 2025HailEdgerton-Golf ball sized hail in Edgerton.
September 2023HailEdgerton-Golf ball sized hail fell along Interstate 35 just south of Edgerton.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Large tree downed in Edgerton.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-A semi tipped over on I-35 and 215th Street. And power poles were down at 207th and Braun in Edgerton.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Public reported 60-70 mph wind.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-An estimated 60 mph wind was reported by a trained spotter.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-A trained spotter measured 58 mph winds.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Several power lines were down on 183rd St just west of Edgerton Road.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
September 2014Flash FloodEdgerton-Areas near Gardner and Edgerton received 2 to 3 inches of rain, resulting in some intersections being closed-off. These intersections include: Waverly Road and 175th and Moonlight and Santa Fe in Gardner.
June 2008Flash FloodEdgerton-Johnson county law enforcement reported, that 159th Street from Evening Star Road west to the Douglas county line, was closed due to flash flooding.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Emergency management officials reported 60 mph wind gusts along Interstate 35 near Edgerton.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-A HAM Radio Operator in Johnson County reported several 70 MPH wind gusts within a 20 minute period between 1755 and 1815 LST during a severe thunderstorm in Edgerton.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Johnson County Emergency Management reported a 60 MPH wind gust along I-35 in Platte and a 65 MPH gust at Edgerton.
May 1995HailEdgerton-A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.)
July 1995HailEdgerton-Dime-size hail was reported one miles south of Edgerton along Interstate and one inch hail in Olathe.
April 2016HailEdgerton-no account filed
October 2014HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2011HailEdgerton-no account filed
August 2008HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-no account filed
February 2003HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2003HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2003HailEdgerton-no account filed
February 2002HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2002HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-no account filed
September 2000HailEdgerton-no account filed
April 1995HailEdgerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Gardner5.3 miles19
Prairie Center (historical)6.8 miles18
Clare8.4 miles20
Spring Hill9.8 miles17
Ocheltree10.2 miles20
Bonita10.7 miles20
Clearview City12.5 miles21
Olathe12.8 miles26

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 EdgertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2654605The 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 479534. 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.