Garden Plain, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Garden Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67050. The Survey maps it on the Garden Plain quadrangle. 948 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGarden Plain grew from 849 to 948 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 | 849 | |
| 2020 | 948 | +99 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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 Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Cheney quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Garden Plain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
56 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Garden Plain between 2015 and 2019, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5892 |
| 1 August 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 276 |
| 5 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 66 |
| 25 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 89 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 5653 |
| 24 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 57 |
| 27 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 240 |
| 24 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 235 |
| 22 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 231 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden Plain in 37 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Garden Plain | 2 hurt, $85,000 | The tornado moved southwest to northeast across the Lake Afton area, inflicting moderate damage to a residence. Two people were injured when their camper rolled at Lake Afton. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Garden Plain | $1,000,000 | Hail up to golfball size fell in a wide band from near Garden Plain to Goddard, producing drifts of hail at times. The hail often occurred with wind gusts up to 60 mph winds. The large hail likely inflicted damage to various roofs and vehicles, but the exact number is unknown. Consequently, property damage amounts are rough estimates. According to newspaper reports, up to 100,000 acres of wheat may have been damaged across the area. Crop damage amounts are rough estimates. The Cheney Times-Sentinel contributed to this report. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Garden Plain | $50,000 | Tornado mainly caused damage to trees, however, a few shingles were blown off of homes in and around the tornado path. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | $5,000 | A metal building had its roof blown off. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | $3,000 | A utility pole was downed. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | $1,000 | Straight-line winds downed 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs, threw square hay bales 30 feet, and also threw a porta potty 50 yards. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Garden Plain | - | A Cocorahs station reported 3.97 inches of rainfall. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | The report was relayed via social media. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Garden Plain | - | A Cocorahs observer in Garden Plain reported 3.19 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | The report was relayed to NWS via social media. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | - | There were no reports of damage. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Garden Plain | - | The roads were flooded at W. 125th & Maple Ave. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | - | Gusts were estimated from 60 to 70 mph 3 miles west of Goddard. The winds caused blowing dust. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | Quarter to half dollar-sized hail was reported at the NW 21st/W 334th Street intersection. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Garden Plain | - | This was a 24 hour report of 3.87 inches. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | Report came in via Twitter. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Garden Plain | - | Rope tornado moved north producing very minor damage to the roof of one barn (DI1 DOD2). Mainly moved across open country. The tornado was 75 yards wide. This tornado moved into Reno County. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Garden Plain | - | Northwest 21ST Street west of 327th Street West was impassable. |
| October 2013 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | This was a delayed report. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | KSNW Channel 3. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Garden Plain | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marys | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cheney | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Goddard | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marks | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Clonmel | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Andale | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Colwich | 11.4 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 Garden Plain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q919773 | 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 473990. 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.







