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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.

Garden Plain within Sedgwick County

Population over time

2 figures

Garden 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.

YearPeople Change
2010849
2020948+99 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

56 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5892
1 August 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service276
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service66
25 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined89 acresKansas Forest Service5653
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service57
27 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service240
24 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service235
22 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service231

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

37 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Garden Plain2 hurt, $85,000The 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 2011HailGarden Plain$1,000,000Hail 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 2010Tornado (EF1)Garden Plain$50,000Tornado mainly caused damage to trees, however, a few shingles were blown off of homes in and around the tornado path.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain$5,000A metal building had its roof blown off.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain$3,000A utility pole was downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain$1,000Straight-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 2023Heavy RainGarden Plain-A Cocorahs station reported 3.97 inches of rainfall.
May 2022HailGarden Plain-The report was relayed via social media.
June 2022Heavy RainGarden Plain-A Cocorahs observer in Garden Plain reported 3.19 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
March 2020HailGarden Plain-The report was relayed to NWS via social media.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain-There were no reports of damage.
May 2019Flash FloodGarden Plain-The roads were flooded at W. 125th & Maple Ave.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain-Gusts were estimated from 60 to 70 mph 3 miles west of Goddard. The winds caused blowing dust.
June 2018HailGarden Plain-Quarter to half dollar-sized hail was reported at the NW 21st/W 334th Street intersection.
July 2018Heavy RainGarden Plain-This was a 24 hour report of 3.87 inches.
June 2016HailGarden Plain-Report came in via Twitter.
April 2015Tornado (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 2014FloodGarden Plain-Northwest 21ST Street west of 327th Street West was impassable.
October 2013HailGarden Plain-This was a delayed report.
July 2013HailGarden Plain-No damage was reported.
May 2001HailGarden Plain-KSNW Channel 3.
March 2026HailGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2025HailGarden Plain-no account filed
June 2025HailGarden Plain-no account filed
June 2019HailGarden Plain-no account filed
July 2013HailGarden Plain-no account filed
September 2010HailGarden Plain-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2008HailGarden Plain-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindGarden Plain-no account filed
March 2003HailGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2003HailGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2003HailGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2002HailGarden Plain-no account filed
May 2002HailGarden Plain-no account filed
April 2002HailGarden Plain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Saint Paul3.6 miles14
Saint Marys4.1 miles14
Cheney5.6 miles14
Goddard5.7 miles14
Saint Marks8.4 miles14
Clonmel9.5 miles14
Andale9.6 miles14
Colwich11.4 miles14

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 PlainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q919773The 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.