Elkhart, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Taloga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67950. It lies near Pasture Number Thirtythree. The Survey maps it on the Elkhart North quadrangle. 1,888 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,589 feet above sea level.
On record in Elkhart
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 5 records
- Point of Rocks-Middle Spring Santa Fe Trail Historic Districtlisted 2013
- Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 2listed 2013
- Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 3listed 2013
- Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 4listed 2013
- Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 1listed 2013
Population over time
2 figuresElkhart fell from 2,205 to 1,888 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 | 2,205 | |
| 2020 | 1,888 | -317 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Elkhart North quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hugoton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Elkhart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | TRANSFORMER |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Morton County | 1700013 |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PRONGHORN |
| 11 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 11 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Morton County | 1700006 |
| 30 June 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 29 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.2 acres | Morton County | PASTURE 33 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 123 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkhart in 123 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 69 hail, 52 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | $15,000 | The roof off an old lumber building was blown off. Also power lines were down in the area. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Measured at the Ekhart airport. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Elkhart | - | Rainfall of 1.24 inches was observed. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Observed at the Elkhart Middle School. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Winds were gusting to 50 MPH as the hail fell. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | There was pea sized hail with an estimated 60 MPH wind. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Winds gusted to 50 MPH as the hail fell. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Power poles were blown down at the intersection of Roads 3 and P. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Measured by a television chase crew. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Large tree branches were broken all over town. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Four inch tree limbs broken. Shingles taken off the roof. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Also reported a funnel cloud overhead. |
| August 2004 | Heavy Rain | Elkhart | - | 4.35 inches of rain fell overnight |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Numerous two inch tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Hail accumulated to 3" in depth. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Roof blown off a chicken house. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Hail completely covered the ground. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | 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 Elkhart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q607814 | 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 485090. 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.




