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Gas, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66749. The Survey maps it on the La Harpe quadrangle. 475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Gas within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Gas fell from 564 to 475 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
2010564
2020475-89 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

49 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Gas between 2015 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County215
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service225
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAllen County22
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service145
18 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County180
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresAllen County14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gas in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
October 2016Flash FloodGas$500,000Widespread flooding occurred in Iola. High water approached several homes. The fire department assisted evacuating residents from their homes. Multiple cars were reported stranded due to the high water.
December 2008LightningGas$150,000Lightning from a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms sparked a house fire in the community of Colony during the predawn hours of the 27th. The residence was completely destroyed. Fortunately, no one was home at the time. Information courtesy of the Iola Register.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindGas$15,000Barn's roof sheared from west side of the structure that housed farm vehicles.
April 2014HailGas$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGas$5,000Trees with trunks 15 inches in diameter uprooted and swing set blown across a yard.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGas$500Tree limbs measuring 4 inches in diameter were downed along Minnesota Road between County Road 2200 and 2400.
August 2013Flash FloodGas$100Several roads, in and around, Iola were covered with high water from very heavy rains.
August 2013FloodGas$100Several county roads had water over them.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindGas-This was a delayed report of at least three trees down across northern portions of Allen County. These trees were partially blocking roadways.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGas-This was an estimated wind gust.
March 2017HailGas-Reported via social media.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGas-Trained spotter reported 60 mph winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGas-Trained spotters estimated the wind gusts.
May 2025HailGas-no account filed
July 2024HailGas-no account filed
May 2020HailGas-no account filed
August 2003HailGas-no account filed
April 2003HailGas-no account filed
May 2003HailGas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
La Harpe2.5 miles18
Iola2.9 miles18
Bassett3.4 miles18
Carlyle5.4 miles18
Humboldt9.2 miles18
Moran9.3 miles17
Geneva10.2 miles16
Bayard10.8 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 GasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2135060The 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 474510. 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.