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Garfield, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67529. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,077 feet above sea level.

Garfield within Pawnee County

On record in Garfield

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Garfield fell from 190 to 151 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
2010190
2020151-39 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 2015 and 2018, burning about 80 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service26
11 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
2 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service5
14 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service12
13 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
6 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service5
6 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6
28 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield in 64 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 45 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
September 2007Thunderstorm WindGarfield$10,000Power poles were blown down and all power was out in Garfield.
July 2007Flash FloodGarfield$1,000Highway 56 at Garfield was flooded with 6 to 8 inches of water. Some homes also had some flooding.
May 2025HailGarfield-A mPING report. Time adjusted based on radar.
May 2024Heavy RainGarfield-Rainfall report of 1.54 inches.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Several 6-8 inch tree limbs down in City Park.
May 2019FloodGarfield-Highway 156 was closed in a few spots as water ran across the road surface.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGarfield-A one diameter tree branch was broken at this location. Also pea sized hail accompanied the high wind.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind.
May 2009HailGarfield-Estimated winds of 65 mph accompanied the hail.
August 2008Heavy RainGarfield-Rainfall of 3.50 was measured and it was still raining at the time of the observation was made.
May 2007FloodGarfield-One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town.
May 2007FloodGarfield-One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Also had slightly bigger than pea size hail.
May 2007HailGarfield-It hailed until 920 PM.
March 2004Tornado (F0)Garfield-This was a brief "rope" reaching the ground.
June 2004HailGarfield-The hail lasted 15 minutes. There was a lot of damage to vehicles and the houses siding
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGarfield-Two inch tree limbs down.
May 2024HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2024HailGarfield-no account filed
October 2023HailGarfield-no account filed
October 2023HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2019HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2019HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2019HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2018HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2018HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2018HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2018HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2018HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2017HailGarfield-no account filed
April 2015HailGarfield-no account filed
July 2013HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2009HailGarfield-no account filed
July 2007FloodGarfield-no account filed
May 2007HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2007HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2006HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2004HailGarfield-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGarfield-no account filed
August 2004HailGarfield-no account filed
October 2004HailGarfield-no account filed
September 2003HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2002HailGarfield-no account filed
April 2001HailGarfield-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGarfield-no account filed
June 2001HailGarfield-no account filed
September 2001HailGarfield-no account filed
May 1998HailGarfield-no account filed
June 1998HailGarfield-no account filed
June 1998HailGarfield-no account filed
June 1998HailGarfield-no account filed
May 1998HailGarfield-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGarfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Hamburg5.1 miles15
Frizell6.3 miles15
Sanford8.0 miles15
Zook8.5 miles15
Bert Wettar10.2 miles15
Larned10.5 miles15
Rozel11.7 miles15
Ash Valley15.7 miles15

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 GarfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1986647The 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 475938. 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.