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Fowler, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fowler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67844. The Survey maps it on the Fowler quadrangle. 534 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,484 feet above sea level.

Fowler within Meade County

On record in Fowler

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fowler fell from 590 to 534 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
2010590
2020534-56 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fowler between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,634 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1

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
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2017Natural4.0 acresMeade County0FFD023
29 December 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresMeade Countynot named
3 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresMeade CountySEYFERT
9 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service0FFD011
21 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMeade County0FFD004

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

60 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowler in 119 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 86 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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
May 2019Flash FloodFowler$1,000,000Rainfall of nearly 10 inches caused very severe flash flooding. Water came across highway 23 and washed an old concrete truck full of concrete across the highway and into an adjacent draw about 400 yards away. The drum of concrete had been there for decades. Also, water washed out a bridge and a resident of nearly 90 years had never seen so much water. The majority of the rain fell in a 3 hour period.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Fowler$75,000This tornado damaged a shed and some trees west of Fowler and a pivot irrigation sprinkler northwest of Fowler. The tornado moved into Gray county at 752 PM CDT.
February 2007Tornado (EF1)Fowler$50,000The second tornado to form started 6.3 miles northwest of Fowler at 1011 PM and traveled a total of 17 miles dissipating at 1040 PM 7 miles southwest of the Dodge City Post Office. It did EF1 damage to five pivot irrigation sprinklers, trees and some outbuildings...in addition to moving a 3000 gallon tank about 1/2 of a mile. In Meade county it tipped over a pivot sprinkler before moving into Ford county at 1014 PM.
May 2020HailFowler-The hail was penny to quarter sized.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Fowler-This was brief and intermittent tornado.
May 2019Heavy RainFowler-The rain gauge that holds 10 inches overflowed. There was severe flooding in the area.
May 2019HailFowler-Siding damage was indicated.
May 2019Heavy RainFowler-The 6 inch capacity rain gauge overflowed. Estimated 7 inches but it could have been more.
May 2015Flash FloodFowler-Flooding was reported in Fowler.
May 2015Tornado (EF2)Fowler-This tornado damaged high voltage transmission lines and poles, pivot irrigation sprinklers, a home and trees. A stock trailer was tossed through the side of the home but fortunately all occupants were in the basement. A car in the driveway was carried and then dropped in a field about 100 miles to the north-northeast. There were no roll marks from the vehicle. The tornado moved into Ford County.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFowler-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFowler-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2009HailFowler-Winds of 50 to 60 mph were also reported with the hail.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFowler-Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009Funnel CloudFowler-A storm chaser reported a large cone shaped funnel almost 1/2 way to the ground.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Fowler-A weak vortex existed for about a minute as it traveled west. The tornado was typical of what one would see in a tropical environment.
February 2007Tornado (EF0)Fowler-The first tornado started at 956 PM CST 8.5 miles west of Fowler in Meade county and traveled about 2.5 miles before dissipating at 1006 PM 7.5 miles northwest of Fowler. It did very minor damage to some trees.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Fowler-This tornado damaged a home, trees, power lines and several center pivot sprinklers. The forward flanking downdraft heavily damaged the Fowler high school roof.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Fowler-This satellite tornado traveled southwest striking a center pivot sprinkler.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFowler-Six power poles were snapped off at the base
August 2002Tornado (F0)Fowler-A brief tornado formed but did not hit anything.
May 1998HailFowler-Hail completely covered the road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed
June 2019HailFowler-no account filed
April 2017HailFowler-no account filed
June 2014HailFowler-no account filed
June 2013HailFowler-no account filed
June 2013HailFowler-no account filed
May 2012HailFowler-no account filed
April 2012HailFowler-no account filed
May 2012HailFowler-no account filed
April 2012HailFowler-no account filed
April 2010HailFowler-no account filed
September 2010HailFowler-no account filed
June 2009HailFowler-no account filed
June 2008HailFowler-no account filed
April 2008HailFowler-no account filed
April 2008HailFowler-no account filed
August 2007HailFowler-no account filed
July 2007HailFowler-no account filed
March 2007Funnel CloudFowler-no account filed
March 2007HailFowler-no account filed
March 2007HailFowler-no account filed
March 2007HailFowler-no account filed
March 2007HailFowler-no account filed
July 2007HailFowler-no account filed
March 2007HailFowler-no account filed
August 2006HailFowler-no account filed
June 2006HailFowler-no account filed
September 2006HailFowler-no account filed
June 2005HailFowler-no account filed
June 2005HailFowler-no account filed
July 2005HailFowler-no account filed
June 2004HailFowler-no account filed
June 2004HailFowler-no account filed
June 2004HailFowler-no account filed
July 2004HailFowler-no account filed
July 2004HailFowler-no account filed
July 2004HailFowler-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Meade10.3 miles14
Missler13.5 miles13
Collano17.6 miles8
Hobart18.6 miles8
Plains22.7 miles8

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 FowlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2211798The 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 470576. 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.