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.
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
Barrett Schoolhouselisted 1973
Frankfort Schoollisted 1972
Old Frankfort City Jaillisted 1982
Robidoux Creek Pratt Truss Bridgelisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresFrankfort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 726 | |
| 2020 | 730 | +4 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2015 | Natural | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15016 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 21 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Tree damage and power lines down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Three inch limbs broken and power poles broken. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Tree limbs 2 to 3 inches in diameter down, stop sign also blown over. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Public report of wind gust to around 68 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Numerous trees limbs down in the city of Frankfort, but sizes were unknown. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches in diameter. Time estimated from radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A machine shed was destroyed. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Wind flipped a carport. Blew it into trees and held it in the trees. Estimated 75-80 mph. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | A delayed report. |
| October 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Large diameter tree branches were down near Frankfort. The spotter in Frankfort reported 60 to 70 mph winds with the storm. |
| November 2008 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Quarter sized hail fell and winds of at least 50 mph were reported. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | - | Hwy 87 was closed between Hwy 36 and the town of Frankfort due to water over the roadway. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | - | Water reported to be over several streets in town. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Frankfort | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sullivan | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Vliets | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Winifred | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Reedsville | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Vermillion | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Lillis | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Beattie | 10.7 miles | 14 | |
| Home | 10.9 miles | 14 |
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 Frankfort | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666698 | 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 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.






