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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.

Elkhart within Morton County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Elkhart 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,205
20201,888-317 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

27 since 1992

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
13 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestTRANSFORMER
25 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMorton County1700013
25 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use12 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestPRONGHORN
11 July 1994Natural1.0 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
11 July 1994Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
1 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreMorton County1700006
30 June 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
29 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMorton CountyPASTURE 33

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this place

60 of 123 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Thunderstorm WindElkhart$50,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindElkhart$15,000The roof off an old lumber building was blown off. Also power lines were down in the area.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Measured at the Ekhart airport.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
July 2019Heavy RainElkhart-Rainfall of 1.24 inches was observed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Observed at the Elkhart Middle School.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
September 2017HailElkhart-Winds were gusting to 50 MPH as the hail fell.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindElkhart-There was pea sized hail with an estimated 60 MPH wind.
June 2013HailElkhart-Winds gusted to 50 MPH as the hail fell.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Power poles were blown down at the intersection of Roads 3 and P.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Measured by a television chase crew.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Large tree branches were broken all over town.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Four inch tree limbs broken. Shingles taken off the roof.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Also reported a funnel cloud overhead.
August 2004Heavy RainElkhart-4.35 inches of rain fell overnight
June 2002Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Numerous two inch tree limbs were blown down.
July 2001HailElkhart-Hail accumulated to 3" in depth.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindElkhart-Roof blown off a chicken house.
May 1997HailElkhart-Hail completely covered the ground.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
October 2023Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2022HailElkhart-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
April 2022HailElkhart-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2022HailElkhart-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
August 2020HailElkhart-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2019HailElkhart-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2017HailElkhart-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
May 2015HailElkhart-no account filed
April 2012HailElkhart-no account filed
September 2012HailElkhart-no account filed
September 2012HailElkhart-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElkhart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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
Wilburton7.7 miles7
Rolla15.7 miles7
Richfield18.7 miles7

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 ElkhartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q607814The 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.