Fulton, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66738. It stands on Laberdie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prescott quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.
On record in Fulton
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
Fulton High School and Grade Schoollisted 2015
Long Shoals Bridgelisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresFulton grew from 163 to 165 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 | 163 | |
| 2020 | 165 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Fulton between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,019 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 burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 624 |
| 11 May 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 184 |
| 10 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Linn County | 168 |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Bourbon County | 122 |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
| 10 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Bourbon County | 128 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 hail, 7 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed one barn and damaged a house along Highway 31. Tree damage also occurred in nearby areas. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Fulton | $25,000 | Hail to the size of half dollars was reported. Some minor roof damage occurred. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Fulton | $10,000 | Heavy rainfall, from training thunderstorms, produced flash flooding near the town of Fulton. The Emergency Manager reported that Yellowstone Road suffered severe damage due to swiftly flowing flood waters. Rainfall estimates from the training storms were around 3 to 4 inches. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton | $5,000 | Social media report relaying that many trees were snapped halfway, with some being uprooted in Fulton, Kansas. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton | $5,000 | A large tree fell and damaged a car. |
| April 2026 | Flood | Fulton | - | Kansas Route 31 between Kansas Routes 7 and 69 at Clever Creek was flooded and impassable. |
| April 2026 | Flood | Fulton | - | A water rescue was performed near 225th Street and Xavier Road at the little Osage River. Rescue was completed successfully. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Highway 31 at Clever Creek was closed and impassable west of Fulton due to flooding. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton | - | The Emergency Manager reported that a couple large trees were broken along with penny size hail. |
| October 2016 | Flood | Fulton | - | Kansas Highway K-31 was closed due to flooding along the Little Osage River. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Flood waters closed and damaged the road surface of 255th Street between Valley and Wagon roads. |
| March 2009 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Excessive rainfall caused several roads and low water crossings to become flooded across the county. A couple of specific locations that flooded included the intersection of 165th street and Highway 31, along with the intersection of 185th Street and Highway 31. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Several areas of Bourbon County flooded as three to four inches of rain fell during the morning hours. A few specific locations that flooded include a section of County Road 195 near its intersection with Highway 31, a section of County Road 165 west of Fulton, a low water crossing near the intersection of County Road 205 and Poplar Road, the intersection of County Road 65 and Yale Road, and the intersection of County Road 85 and Maple. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Widespread flash flooding occurred across Bourbon County. This flash flooding was mainly confined to low water crossings. However, a section of Highway 69 was closed due to flooding of Wood Creek. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Fulton | - | Heavy rain caused flooding across northern sections of Bourbon County. Numerous low water crossings were impassable to motorists. A local observer in the area had measured 3.40 inches of rain that fell in two hours. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Fulton | - | Persistent rainfall caused areal flooding along the Little Osage River. Numerous roads and low lying areas along the river became inundated and impassable to motorists. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Fulton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Fulton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnesville | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hammond | 5.3 miles | 20 | |
| Harding | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Devon | 8.0 miles | 20 | |
| Mapleton | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Berlin | 11.2 miles | 19 | |
| Fort Scott | 11.8 miles | 20 | |
| Marmaton | 13.5 miles | 20 |
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 Fulton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q935903 | 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 478173. 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.







