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Galesburg, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Centerville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66740. The Survey maps it on the Galesburg quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Galesburg within Neosho County

Population over time

2 figures

Galesburg grew from 126 to 149 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
2010126
2020149+23 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Galesburg between 2015 and 2018, burning about 375 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service150627A
27 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service150627B
23 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service150623
7 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
17 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service180417
22 March 2015Smoking120 acresKansas Forest Service150322
22 March 2015Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service150322B
16 March 2015Smoking5.0 acresKansas Forest Service150316

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galesburg in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
August 1998HailGalesburg$250,000Tennisball to softball-sized hail pelted a one square mile section on the south side of Lake Parsons, inflicting extensive damage to boats, tents, campers, vehicles, buildings and crops.
April 2005Tornado (F3)Galesburg$200,000Damage summary: Two miles south of Galesburg: One barn damaged & two out-buildings destroyed. Three miles southeast of Galesburg: Two mobile homes destroyed, one frame house dislodged from it's foundation & two barns destroyed. Four miles east-southeast of Galesburg: Frame house unroofed with two exterior walls collapsed. A garage and one shed were destroyed. Tree damage occurred at each of these locations.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGalesburg$10,000A large haybarn was destroyed. Several power poles were also knocked down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGalesburg$10,000Storage shed the size of a 3-car garage destroyed, with parts of the shed thrown onto elementary school grounds nearly one block away. An aluminum boat stored inside the shed was also thrown, with the boat blown into the windshield of a vehicle owned by the school. (Speed estimated per 0357 CST report from 3N Erie. Damage estimate a rough approximation with owners of the shed and it's contents waiting for damage assessment from their insurance company. Narrative details courtesy of Parsons Sun.)
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGalesburg$5,000Numerous trees were downed around the Lake Parsons area.
May 2022Heavy RainGalesburg-A Coop observer in Galesburg, Kansas. reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 4.05 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainGalesburg-This was a 24 hour rain total of 5.21 inches.
May 2018HailGalesburg-Fifty mph winds were also reported with this storm.
May 2017HailGalesburg-This was a delayed report.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGalesburg-Winds estimated at 70 to 80 mph were reported along Highway 47.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGalesburg-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGalesburg-Winds were estimated around 50 to 60 mph.
July 2008HailGalesburg-The hail occurred on Highway 47, 4 miles west of the Highway 59 and Highway 47 intersection.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindGalesburg-no account filed
June 2011HailGalesburg-no account filed
May 2011HailGalesburg-no account filed
June 2011HailGalesburg-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGalesburg-no account filed
August 2008HailGalesburg-no account filed
May 2008HailGalesburg-no account filed
July 2008HailGalesburg-no account filed
October 2007HailGalesburg-no account filed
March 2006HailGalesburg-no account filed
September 2005HailGalesburg-no account filed
April 2004HailGalesburg-no account filed
August 2003HailGalesburg-no account filed
July 2003HailGalesburg-no account filed
December 2002HailGalesburg-no account filed
May 1999HailGalesburg-no account filed
May 1995HailGalesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Hayden6.1 miles19
Thayer6.1 miles19
Urbana6.2 miles20
South Mound7.3 miles18
Erie8.9 miles21
Shaw9.1 miles19
Earlton9.8 miles20
Morehead10.0 miles17

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 GalesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2467891The 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 469684. 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.