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.
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 figuresGarfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 190 | |
| 2020 | 151 | -39 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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 Larned quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Larned quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 11 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
| 2 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 13 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 6 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 28 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 64 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $10,000 | Power poles were blown down and all power was out in Garfield. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Garfield | $1,000 | Highway 56 at Garfield was flooded with 6 to 8 inches of water. Some homes also had some flooding. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Garfield | - | A mPING report. Time adjusted based on radar. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Garfield | - | Rainfall report of 1.54 inches. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Several 6-8 inch tree limbs down in City Park. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Garfield | - | Highway 156 was closed in a few spots as water ran across the road surface. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | A one diameter tree branch was broken at this location. Also pea sized hail accompanied the high wind. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Garfield | - | Estimated winds of 65 mph accompanied the hail. |
| August 2008 | Heavy Rain | Garfield | - | Rainfall of 3.50 was measured and it was still raining at the time of the observation was made. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Garfield | - | One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Garfield | - | One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Also had slightly bigger than pea size hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Garfield | - | It hailed until 920 PM. |
| March 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Garfield | - | This was a brief "rope" reaching the ground. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Garfield | - | The hail lasted 15 minutes. There was a lot of damage to vehicles and the houses siding |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | Two inch tree limbs down. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Flood | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Garfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamburg | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Frizell | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sanford | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Zook | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bert Wettar | 10.2 miles | 15 | |
| Larned | 10.5 miles | 15 | |
| Rozel | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Ash Valley | 15.7 miles | 15 |
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 Garfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1986647 | 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 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.






