Esbon, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Esbon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66941. The Survey maps it on the Esbon quadrangle. 69 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,844 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEsbon fell from 99 to 69 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 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 69 | -30 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Mankato quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Esbon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esbon in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2015 | Tornado (EF2) | Esbon | 1 hurt, $1,500,000 | This tornado started west of Mankato, traveling north and passing approximately 1 mile to the west of Burr Oak before turning more to the northeast and lifting. One woman was injured at her home approximately 4 miles south-southwest of Burr Oak. This tornado was rated an EF2, with an estimated peak wind speed of 130 MPH.||Along the path of this tornado, at least 4 homes sustained damage, including roof, window and siding damage. One home lost a large section of its roof. A garage was destroyed, with the vehicles inside moved 30-50 feet from their original location. Other outbuildings, grain bins, power poles and trees were damaged or destroyed. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Esbon | $100,000 | Several power poles were damaged or downed by high winds. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Esbon | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Esbon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | $30,000 | Damage included a 16 by 24 foot steel door separated from a building, a hog shed destroyed, and tree limbs of 6 inches in diameter blown down. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Esbon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Esbon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Esbon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Esbon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Esbon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Esbon | - | Windshields were damaged or broken on some area vehicles. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Esbon | - | Storm chaser reported a brief touchdown southeast of Esbon. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Esbon | - | Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over northern Kansas. A small tornado touched down briefly east of Logan. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Esbon | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Esbon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otego | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Burr Oak | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Dentonia | 9.7 miles | 13 | |
| Northbranch | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Wesley Center | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ionia | 11.9 miles | 13 | |
| Mankato | 12.2 miles | 13 | |
| Jewell | 18.2 miles | 13 |
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 Esbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958436 | 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 471981. 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.
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.




