Elbing, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67041. The Survey maps it on the Elbing quadrangle. 226 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElbing fell from 229 to 226 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 226 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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 Newton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Elbing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Elbing quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Elbing between 2016 and 2020, burning about 86 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Harvey County | 52 |
| 5 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 12 March 2018 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18019 |
| 21 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1600517 |
Storms near this place
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elbing in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | $25,000 | Power lines and power poles downed. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | $25,000 | Unspecified damage to a farmstead 1 S of Burns or 1 W of Highway 77 along Marion/Butler County line. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Elbing | $20,000 | Very heavy rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches caused widespread flooding across the northern half of Butler County during the early morning hours of the 27th. Several roads became impassable in the Cassoday and Burns area. Water rescues were needed for campers around Fox Lake east of Cassoday. Additionally, several camping areas around El Dorado Lake closed due to a rise in lake levels. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Elbing | $10,000 | Tornado mainly caused tree damage. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Elbing | - | This was a delayed report received via emergency management. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | Two inch diameter tree limbs were reported down and relayed via emergency management. |
| November 2022 | Heavy Rain | Elbing | - | A Cocorahs observer reported 2.65 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Elbing | - | This was a delayed report of quarter to half dollar-sized hail. The time of the event is estimated from radar. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Elbing | - | The report was relayed from a trained spotter. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | A trained spotter reported the wind gusts. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | No damage reported. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | Some small tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | Leaves were stripped from trees and an antenna had blown off a roof. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | Since this is a pretty remote area, only minor damage to trees were noted. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | Winds were estimated around 60 to 65 mph. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Elbing | - | The hail size ranged from pennies to quarters. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | A trained spotter reported the wind gust. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Elbing | - | Continued runoff from very heavy rainfall during the afternoon, evening and overnight hours on the 26th prolonged flooding across the county into the early morning hours on the 29th, partly due to the moderate to major flooding along the swollen Walnut and Whitewater rivers and their associated tributaries. Several rural and some city roads around the county were closed due to high water. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unknown. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Elbing | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Elbing | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elbing | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Elbing | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Elbing | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Elbing | - | 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.
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 Elbing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1023035 | 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 478025. 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.






