Fall River, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Salt Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67047. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fall River quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFall River fell from 162 to 131 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 | 162 | |
| 2020 | 131 | -31 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1885 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fall River between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2,459 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Elk County | 17049 |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Elk County | 17046 |
| 7 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500055 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 640 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018008 |
| 4 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500052 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1860 |
| 2 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500049 |
| 10 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500057 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall River in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | $17,500 | A barn was destroyed and a house was damaged. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Fall River | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | - | An estimated wind gust of 70 mph was reported by the fire department near Fall River. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | - | The wind gusts were estimated to be 55 to 60 mph with dust getting blown. |
| September 2023 | Heavy Rain | Fall River | - | Cooperative observer measured 2.25 inches of rain from morning storms near Fall River. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Fall River | - | A public report near Fall River reported 6.25 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | - | Fall River Fire Department reported the gust. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Fall River | - | Minor flooding at various locations across southeast parts of the county. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Fall River | - | Nuisance flooding was reported across the county. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | Rainfall accumulated 7 to as much as 20 inches across Greenwood County June 28th through the 30th, the heaviest amounts occurring across southeastern portions of the county, producing widespread, significant flooding. Please refer to this event in the July 2007 StormData publication for complete details. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | - | 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 Fall River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2650782 | 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 475067. 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.









