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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.

Elbing within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Elbing 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.

YearPeople Change
2010229
2020226-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

4 since 2016

Regional 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/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 April 2017Debris and open burning80 acresHarvey County52
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
12 March 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKansas Forest Service18019
21 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1600517

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

24 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindElbing$25,000Power lines and power poles downed.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindElbing$25,000Unspecified damage to a farmstead 1 S of Burns or 1 W of Highway 77 along Marion/Butler County line.
June 2008Flash FloodElbing$20,000Very 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 2003Tornado (F0)Elbing$10,000Tornado mainly caused tree damage.
April 2026HailElbing-This was a delayed report received via emergency management.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindElbing-Two inch diameter tree limbs were reported down and relayed via emergency management.
November 2022Heavy RainElbing-A Cocorahs observer reported 2.65 inches of rainfall.
June 2017HailElbing-This was a delayed report of quarter to half dollar-sized hail. The time of the event is estimated from radar.
April 2016HailElbing-The report was relayed from a trained spotter.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindElbing-A trained spotter reported the wind gusts.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindElbing-No damage reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElbing-Some small tree branches were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindElbing-Leaves were stripped from trees and an antenna had blown off a roof.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindElbing-Since this is a pretty remote area, only minor damage to trees were noted.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindElbing-Winds were estimated around 60 to 65 mph.
May 2010HailElbing-The hail size ranged from pennies to quarters.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElbing-A trained spotter reported the wind gust.
April 2009FloodElbing-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 2026HailElbing-no account filed
April 2026HailElbing-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindElbing-no account filed
September 2006Funnel CloudElbing-no account filed
May 2005HailElbing-no account filed
June 2005HailElbing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Whitewater6.2 miles14
Brainerd7.2 miles14
Potwin9.7 miles14
De Graff14.9 miles14
Hopkins14.9 miles13
Benton18.2 miles15
Towanda18.9 miles14
Midian19.1 miles14

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 ElbingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023035The 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.