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Frontenac, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Frontenac City. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle. 3,382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Frontenac within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Frontenac fell from 3,437 to 3,382 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
20103,437
20203,382-55 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

173 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Frontenac between 2015 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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/undetermined93
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service730019
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County1695
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrawford County128
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1339
5 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Frontenac: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frontenac in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 4 flash flood, 4 heavy rain. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindFrontenac3 hurt, $10,000Severe thunderstorm wind speeds in excess of 70 mph caused major tree damage in the community of Frotenac. Three injuries occurred as a large tree was blown down on a vehicle.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$50,000Several power lines and poles were reported down.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$30,000Several power poles were reported down randomly throughout Frontenac and other parts of eastern Crawford County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$25,000A large tree was reported to have fallen on a car on 31st Street. No injuries were reported.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$20,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged a few roofs and blew over trees and signs in the community of Frontenac.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$8,000A few power lines were reported down in Frontenac.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$5,000Sheet metal was blown off a barn roof. A firework tent collapsed near 29th and Broadway.
June 2016Flash FloodFrontenac$2,000There were several inches of water over the roadway near Frontenac. There was a stalled vehicle in the flood water near Catalina and Kennedy.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$2,000Small tree limbs and a few power lines were blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$1,000A tree was snapped and split in half.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFrontenac$1,000A power line was blown down at the intersection of Highway 69 and Leighton Street.
May 2022Flash FloodFrontenac-Numerous city streets were reported flooded.
June 2021FloodFrontenac-Significant street flooding was reported.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-Winds were estimated in town.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-Large limbs were reported down and power outages occurred.
May 2019FloodFrontenac-West McKay Street was closed due to flooding from Cow Creek.
July 2019FloodFrontenac-Heavy rains caused several inches of water to impact multiple city roads.
May 2019Heavy RainFrontenac-The gauge at the fire station had a 24 hour rainfall total of 3.94 inches.
May 2019Heavy RainFrontenac-The 24 hour rainfall accumulation in Frontenac was 4.09 inches. The rain began on April 30th.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-A large tree was reported down on North Free Kings Highway east of Pittsburg.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-A few large limbs were reported broken and down near town.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-A large tree limb was blown down at North Crawford in Frontenac.
May 2017Flash FloodFrontenac-Flash flooding was reported at the corner of McKahn and Crawford Street in Frontenac, Kansas.
April 2017Heavy RainFrontenac-A storm total rainfall of 3.89 inches of rainfall was measured.
April 2013HailFrontenac-The public reported quarter size hail via Facebook.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-The public estimated wind gusts up to 65 mph.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-Large limbs around ten inches in diameter were blown down.
March 2011HailFrontenac-The public reported mostly pea sized hail with some nickel and penny sized hail mixed in.
February 2011HailFrontenac-Trained spotter reported one inch size hail.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-A storm spotter measured a winds gust using a hand held anemometer. No damage was reported in the grass and farm dominated location.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-A 60 mph wind gust occurred in a mainly rural area about a mile northeast of town.
June 2009Flash FloodFrontenac-Excessive rainfall flooded several streets in the city of Pittsburg.
September 2009Heavy RainFrontenac-A trained storm spotter measured 4.11 inches of rain.
June 2017HailFrontenac-no account filed
March 2015HailFrontenac-no account filed
April 2013HailFrontenac-no account filed
March 2013HailFrontenac-no account filed
April 2012HailFrontenac-no account filed
June 2010HailFrontenac-no account filed
June 2010HailFrontenac-no account filed
March 2007HailFrontenac-no account filed
March 2006HailFrontenac-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-no account filed
April 2005HailFrontenac-no account filed
June 2004HailFrontenac-no account filed
July 2003HailFrontenac-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFrontenac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Capaldo2.2 miles24
Litchfield2.3 miles24
Lone Oak3.1 miles24
Midway3.1 miles24
Cornell3.1 miles24
Yale3.2 miles24
Pittsburg3.2 miles24
Dunkirk3.4 miles24

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 FrontenacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2687658The 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 469741. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.