Geneseo, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victoria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67444. The Survey maps it on the Geneseo quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,755 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGeneseo fell from 267 to 236 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 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 236 | -31 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1894 USGS Ellsworth quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Geneseo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Geneseo in 2015, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 511315 |
| 3 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 504215 |
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 Geneseo in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Geneseo | $25,000 | The tornado hit a homestead causing damage to an older barn, a utility shed, and trees. Winds were estimated at 85 mph. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | $5,000 | Thunderstorms winds caused extensive tree damage in a path from Geneseo to Crawford. Hail, size unknown, also accompanied the storm and wiped out 10 to 20 percent of the crops in the area. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | $3,000 | A shed was damaged. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | $3,000 | A fence was blown down as were a few limbs. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | $100 | Tree limbs were downed and a BBQ grill was blown over. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Geneseo | - | KWCH shared a picture from the public showing hail about the size of ping pong balls. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Trained spotter reported wind gusts up to 70 mph. Their car was shaking, and a significant number of tree limbs were down. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Geneseo | - | Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.46 inches. |
| May 2022 | Heavy Rain | Geneseo | - | This is a 24 hour storm total of 3.00 inches. |
| May 2021 | Flood | Geneseo | - | In town, Main street was covered with enough water to cause a nuisance and some of the creeks nearby are out of their banks. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | This report was relayed via KWCH. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | Winds up to 65 mph were also reported. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | Numerous car windshields were noted. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | A two to three wide swath of intense severe thunderstorm winds up to 110 mph moved out of Ellsworth county and across Rice county. Leaving significant damage along the way. Power poles up to and over one mile in width were knocked down or broken in half at multiple locations. Approximately one half mile of rail cars were blown off of the track just to the west of Geneseo. Crops along the path were flattened and tree branches were blown out of several trees along with some trees being completely blown over. A measured wind gust of 77 mph was recorded near the end of the wind damage path at the Lyons county airport. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Geneseo | - | Pea to golf ball sized hail fell. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Relayed by a trained spotter. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | No damage was reported. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Winds were estimated to be between 55 and 60 mph. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Geneseo | - | Reported in K-4 about 8 miles east of Geneseo. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Reported by local law enforcement. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Geneseo | - | The quarter sized hail was also mixed with dime and nickel hail along Highway 4. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Quarter sized hail was also reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | The time of the estimated 60 mph winds was corrected. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | A broadcast media chaser reported the gust. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Geneseo | - | Very heavy rains around 2 inches just outside of Geneseo caused isolated flooding of flat low lying areas. County roads in the area were covered by water. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Geneseo | - | Television station, KWCH, reported, via twitter, that 4 inches of rain had occurred near Fredrick. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Geneseo | - | County roads were closed between Bushton and Geneseo. Ditches were full near Bushton. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Geneseo | - | The spotter was located along Highway 14 between Geneseo and Lyons. |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Geneseo | - | Remained in the country. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneseo | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Geneseo | - | 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.
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 Geneseo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577312 | 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 475564. 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.





