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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.

Fulton within Bourbon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fulton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010163
2020165+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

33 since 2014

Regional 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 burning11
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2

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
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2020Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service624
11 May 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service184
10 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLinn County168
8 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresBourbon County122
20 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service163
10 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresBourbon County128

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFulton$50,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed one barn and damaged a house along Highway 31. Tree damage also occurred in nearby areas.
April 2024HailFulton$25,000Hail to the size of half dollars was reported. Some minor roof damage occurred.
July 2009Flash FloodFulton$10,000Heavy 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 2024Thunderstorm WindFulton$5,000Social media report relaying that many trees were snapped halfway, with some being uprooted in Fulton, Kansas.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFulton$5,000A large tree fell and damaged a car.
April 2026FloodFulton-Kansas Route 31 between Kansas Routes 7 and 69 at Clever Creek was flooded and impassable.
April 2026FloodFulton-A water rescue was performed near 225th Street and Xavier Road at the little Osage River. Rescue was completed successfully.
April 2024Flash FloodFulton-Highway 31 at Clever Creek was closed and impassable west of Fulton due to flooding.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFulton-The Emergency Manager reported that a couple large trees were broken along with penny size hail.
October 2016FloodFulton-Kansas Highway K-31 was closed due to flooding along the Little Osage River.
July 2010Flash FloodFulton-Flood waters closed and damaged the road surface of 255th Street between Valley and Wagon roads.
March 2009Flash FloodFulton-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 2009Flash FloodFulton-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 2008Flash FloodFulton-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 2007Flash FloodFulton-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 2007FloodFulton-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 2012HailFulton-no account filed
September 2012HailFulton-no account filed
June 2011HailFulton-no account filed
March 2004HailFulton-no account filed
May 2003HailFulton-no account filed
May 2003HailFulton-no account filed
May 2003HailFulton-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindFulton-no account filed
June 1996HailFulton-no account filed
June 1996HailFulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Barnesville3.1 miles15
Hammond5.3 miles20
Harding5.4 miles20
Devon8.0 miles20
Mapleton8.7 miles14
Berlin11.2 miles19
Fort Scott11.8 miles20
Marmaton13.5 miles20

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 FultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935903The 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.