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Frankfort, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66427. It stands on Little Timber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle. 730 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.

Frankfort within Marshall County

On record in Frankfort

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Frankfort grew from 726 to 730 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
2010726
2020730+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

19 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Frankfort between 2015 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
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
16 September 2015Natural50 acresKansas Forest Service15016
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service9
21 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 23 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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 1997Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$2,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Tree damage and power lines down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Three inch limbs broken and power poles broken.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Tree limbs 2 to 3 inches in diameter down, stop sign also blown over.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Public report of wind gust to around 68 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Numerous trees limbs down in the city of Frankfort, but sizes were unknown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches in diameter. Time estimated from radar.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-A machine shed was destroyed.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Wind flipped a carport. Blew it into trees and held it in the trees. Estimated 75-80 mph.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Widespread wind damage reported throughout the town. Power lines and poles down. Roof of city hall blown off. Windows throughout the town were broken by hail or wind.
July 2013HailFrankfort-A delayed report.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Large diameter tree branches were down near Frankfort. The spotter in Frankfort reported 60 to 70 mph winds with the storm.
November 2008HailFrankfort-Quarter sized hail fell and winds of at least 50 mph were reported.
September 2007Flash FloodFrankfort-Hwy 87 was closed between Hwy 36 and the town of Frankfort due to water over the roadway.
September 2007Flash FloodFrankfort-Water reported to be over several streets in town.
April 2026HailFrankfort-no account filed
April 2014HailFrankfort-no account filed
April 2014HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 2013HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2012HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2011HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2008HailFrankfort-no account filed
September 2007HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2005HailFrankfort-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
August 2003HailFrankfort-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
July 2001HailFrankfort-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
September 2001HailFrankfort-no account filed
October 2000HailFrankfort-no account filed
October 2000HailFrankfort-no account filed
October 2000HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
May 1999HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 1999HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 1998HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 1998HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 1997HailFrankfort-no account filed
April 1995HailFrankfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Sullivan4.3 miles16
Vliets4.5 miles16
Winifred5.6 miles14
Reedsville7.8 miles14
Vermillion8.1 miles16
Lillis9.2 miles15
Beattie10.7 miles14
Home10.9 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 FrankfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666698The 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 473195. 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.