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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.

Esbon within Jewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Esbon 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.

YearPeople Change
201099
202069-30 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Tornado (EF2)Esbon1 hurt, $1,500,000This 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 1997HailEsbon$100,000Several power poles were damaged or downed by high winds.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEsbon$75,000no account filed
July 2002HailEsbon$75,000no account filed
May 2002HailEsbon$50,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindEsbon$30,000Damage 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 2006HailEsbon$25,000no account filed
July 2006HailEsbon$25,000no account filed
June 1999HailEsbon$20,000no account filed
April 2008HailEsbon$10,000no account filed
May 2006HailEsbon$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindEsbon$2,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEsbon-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindEsbon-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
September 2010HailEsbon-Windshields were damaged or broken on some area vehicles.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Esbon-Storm chaser reported a brief touchdown southeast of Esbon.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEsbon-Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH.
September 1995HailEsbon-Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over northern Kansas. A small tornado touched down briefly east of Logan.
August 2020HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2018HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2017HailEsbon-no account filed
June 2014HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2013HailEsbon-no account filed
March 2013HailEsbon-no account filed
April 2011HailEsbon-no account filed
April 2011HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2011HailEsbon-no account filed
July 2010HailEsbon-no account filed
June 2010HailEsbon-no account filed
August 2009HailEsbon-no account filed
March 2008HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEsbon-no account filed
March 2006HailEsbon-no account filed
May 2004HailEsbon-no account filed
May 1999HailEsbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Otego4.7 miles13
Burr Oak7.6 miles13
Dentonia9.7 miles13
Northbranch10.9 miles13
Wesley Center11.1 miles13
Ionia11.9 miles13
Mankato12.2 miles13
Jewell18.2 miles13

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 EsbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958436The 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.