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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.

Fall River within Greenwood County

Population over time

2 figures

Fall 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.

YearPeople Change
2010162
2020131-31 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

22 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 April 2017Debris and open burning120 acresElk County17049
7 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresElk County17046
7 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500055
5 April 2018Debris and open burning640 acresKansas Forest Service2018008
4 April 2015Arson/incendiarism80 acresKansas Forest Service1500052
28 April 2018Debris and open burning400 acresKansas Forest Service1860
2 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500049
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500057

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Thunderstorm WindFall River$17,500A barn was destroyed and a house was damaged.
March 1993HailFall River$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFall River-An estimated wind gust of 70 mph was reported by the fire department near Fall River.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFall River-The wind gusts were estimated to be 55 to 60 mph with dust getting blown.
September 2023Heavy RainFall River-Cooperative observer measured 2.25 inches of rain from morning storms near Fall River.
June 2022Heavy RainFall River-A public report near Fall River reported 6.25 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFall River-Fall River Fire Department reported the gust.
May 2008FloodFall River-Minor flooding at various locations across southeast parts of the county.
June 2007FloodFall River-Nuisance flooding was reported across the county.
June 2007Flash FloodFall 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 2021HailFall River-no account filed
April 2011HailFall River-no account filed
April 2011HailFall River-no account filed
April 2009HailFall River-no account filed
April 2006Funnel CloudFall River-no account filed
March 2006HailFall River-no account filed
August 2006HailFall River-no account filed
October 2006HailFall River-no account filed
August 2005HailFall River-no account filed
August 2005HailFall River-no account filed
June 2004HailFall River-no account filed
May 2002HailFall River-no account filed
August 1999HailFall River-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindFall River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Severy10.6 miles19
Climax12.9 miles19
Rocky Ford14.5 miles14
Neal15.9 miles14
Piedmont17.9 miles14
Tonovay18.6 miles14
Quincy19.0 miles17
Eureka20.3 miles14

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 RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2650782The 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.