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Gaylord, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Houston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67638. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gaylord quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Gaylord within Smith County

Population over time

2 figures

Gaylord fell from 114 to 87 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
2010114
202087-27 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gaylord between 2015 and 2017, burning about 544 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
16 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSmith County2017007
6 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSmith County2017003
17 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service2015005
17 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service2015003
16 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use450 acresKansas Forest Service2015002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gaylord in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 20 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGaylord$500,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGaylord$125,000Wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH resulted in 17 power poles being damaged or destroyed in the area of the intersection of Highways 9 and 281 just east of Gaylord. Further south near Harlan along Highway 281, a couple grain bins were destroyed and a church suffered minor roof damage.
June 2010Flash FloodGaylord$100,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGaylord$100,000no account filed
April 2001Tornado (F1)Gaylord$75,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGaylord$50,000no account filed
September 1993HailGaylord$50,000no account filed
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Gaylord$45,000A brief tornado touched down in a field southeast of Gaylord. An off-duty NWS Employee reported a funnel cloud in the area. According to the Smith County Pioneer newspaper, the tornado damaged a center pivot system. The Pioneer also reported a man witnessed the pivot go up in the air along with other loose debris flying around. No other damage was reported from this tornado.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGaylord$25,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGaylord$20,000Strong winds from an isolated thunderstorm downed some power poles in Gaylord.
May 2007HailGaylord$20,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGaylord$15,000Wind gusts were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH. Penny sized hail accompanied the wind.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGaylord$5,000A couple of power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds in this area.
June 1998HailGaylord$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailGaylord$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailGaylord$2,000no account filed
May 1993HailGaylord$500no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGaylord-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGaylord-A trained spotter estimated that a 65 mph wind gust occurred.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGaylord-An estimated wind gust of 70 mph occurred.
May 2018HailGaylord-no account filed
May 2015HailGaylord-no account filed
May 2013HailGaylord-no account filed
July 2011HailGaylord-no account filed
August 2011HailGaylord-no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodGaylord-no account filed
June 2010HailGaylord-no account filed
June 2010HailGaylord-no account filed
July 2010HailGaylord-no account filed
May 2008HailGaylord-no account filed
August 2008HailGaylord-no account filed
July 2007HailGaylord-no account filed
March 2004HailGaylord-no account filed
September 2004HailGaylord-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGaylord-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGaylord-no account filed
June 1998HailGaylord-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Cedar5.0 miles12
Harlan5.0 miles12
Athol9.2 miles12
Claudell9.7 miles13
Smith Center9.9 miles12
Kensington12.9 miles13
Bellaire14.0 miles12
Dispatch18.4 miles13

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 GaylordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666500The 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 472068. 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.