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Falun, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Falun Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67442. The Survey maps it on the Falun quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Falun within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

Falun fell from 87 to 83 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
201087
202083-4 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Falun between 2015 and 2018, burning about 81 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSaline County74
17 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24
8 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use60 acresKansas Forest Service13
15 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
11 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service14
26 January 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falun in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFalun$10,000A tree with a 12-15 inch diameter trunk was uprooted. Several power poles were downed in Falun. This was a delayed report with the time of event based on radar.
April 2025HailFalun-Public report received via mPING.
July 2025Flash FloodFalun-There were reports of numerous flooded roads in and around the towns of Brookville and Glendale along with several county roads across western Saline County. Brookville measured 7.45 inches of rain.
May 2022Heavy RainFalun-This is a storm total for the last 24 hours of 3.73 inches.
May 2019FloodFalun-Burma Rd. was flooded in several places from the McPherson County line to Falun Rd.
October 2017Tornado (EF0)Falun-No damage was reported as it moved across open country. It was reported to be on the ground for four minutes.
August 2013HailFalun-Reported by Law Enforcement via amateur radio.
April 2012Tornado (EF2)Falun-Major damage to large trees along the path and to a farm house near Smolan.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Falun-Tornado moved over open country the whole time.
August 2013HailFalun-no account filed
August 2013HailFalun-no account filed
June 2011HailFalun-no account filed
June 2001HailFalun-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindFalun-no account filed
May 1996HailFalun-no account filed
May 1996HailFalun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Salemsborg4.2 miles16
Smolan6.1 miles16
Phillips Village (historical)7.0 miles17
Assaria8.2 miles16
Bridgeport8.3 miles16
Bavaria8.7 miles17
Brookville9.2 miles17
Mentor9.6 miles16

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 FalunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3885028The 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 476938. 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.