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.
Population over time
2 figuresGaylord 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -27 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Gaylord quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2015Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Smith County | 2017007 |
| 6 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Smith County | 2017003 |
| 17 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015005 |
| 17 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015003 |
| 16 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 450 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $125,000 | Wind 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Gaylord | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $100,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Gaylord | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Gaylord | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Gaylord | $45,000 | A 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $20,000 | Strong winds from an isolated thunderstorm downed some power poles in Gaylord. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Gaylord | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $15,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH. Penny sized hail accompanied the wind. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | $5,000 | A couple of power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds in this area. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Gaylord | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Gaylord | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Gaylord | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Gaylord | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | - | A trained spotter estimated that a 65 mph wind gust occurred. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | - | An estimated wind gust of 70 mph occurred. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaylord | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Gaylord | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Harlan | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Athol | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Claudell | 9.7 miles | 13 | |
| Smith Center | 9.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kensington | 12.9 miles | 13 | |
| Bellaire | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Dispatch | 18.4 miles | 13 |
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 Gaylord | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666500 | 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 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.




