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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.

Geneseo within Rice County

Population over time

2 figures

Geneseo 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.

YearPeople Change
2010267
2020236-31 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
21 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service511315
3 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service504215

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rice County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Geneseo$25,000The tornado hit a homestead causing damage to an older barn, a utility shed, and trees. Winds were estimated at 85 mph.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$5,000Thunderstorms 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 1996Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$3,000A shed was damaged.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$3,000A fence was blown down as were a few limbs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$100Tree limbs were downed and a BBQ grill was blown over.
May 2024HailGeneseo-KWCH shared a picture from the public showing hail about the size of ping pong balls.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Trained spotter reported wind gusts up to 70 mph. Their car was shaking, and a significant number of tree limbs were down.
August 2023Heavy RainGeneseo-Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.46 inches.
May 2022Heavy RainGeneseo-This is a 24 hour storm total of 3.00 inches.
May 2021FloodGeneseo-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 2021HailGeneseo-This report was relayed via KWCH.
August 2021HailGeneseo-Winds up to 65 mph were also reported.
August 2021HailGeneseo-Numerous car windshields were noted.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-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 2020HailGeneseo-Pea to golf ball sized hail fell.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Relayed by a trained spotter.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-No damage was reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Winds were estimated to be between 55 and 60 mph.
June 2017HailGeneseo-Reported in K-4 about 8 miles east of Geneseo.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Reported by local law enforcement.
May 2016HailGeneseo-The quarter sized hail was also mixed with dime and nickel hail along Highway 4.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Quarter sized hail was also reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-The time of the estimated 60 mph winds was corrected.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-A broadcast media chaser reported the gust.
May 2015Flash FloodGeneseo-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 2014Heavy RainGeneseo-Television station, KWCH, reported, via twitter, that 4 inches of rain had occurred near Fredrick.
July 2013FloodGeneseo-County roads were closed between Bushton and Geneseo. Ditches were full near Bushton.
September 2009HailGeneseo-The spotter was located along Highway 14 between Geneseo and Lyons.
August 2005Tornado (F0)Geneseo-Remained in the country.
April 2026HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2025HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2025HailGeneseo-no account filed
April 2025HailGeneseo-no account filed
June 2024HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
August 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
August 2021HailGeneseo-no account filed
June 2019HailGeneseo-no account filed
June 2019HailGeneseo-no account filed
June 2017HailGeneseo-no account filed
October 2017HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2016HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2016HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2015HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2014HailGeneseo-no account filed
April 2011HailGeneseo-no account filed
September 2009HailGeneseo-no account filed
June 2009HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2008HailGeneseo-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGeneseo-no account filed
May 2005HailGeneseo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Galt5.2 miles15
Pollard5.4 miles14
Frederick5.9 miles14
Crawford6.5 miles14
Mitchell9.6 miles15
Little River11.2 miles15
Lyons12.0 miles14
Bushton12.6 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 GeneseoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577312The 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.