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Glasco, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Solomon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67445. It stands on Fisher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glasco quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.

Glasco within Cloud County

On record in Glasco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glasco fell from 498 to 441 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
2010498
2020441-57 (-11%)

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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Glasco between 2015 and 2017, burning about 72 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service110
3 December 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service114
9 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service22
3 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service113
27 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOttawa County201701

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this place

60 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasco in 88 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 50 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
February 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco$28,000strong winds destroyed several outbuildings and a shed at a farmstead. A shed and pickup camper in it were also destroyed.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
May 2023HailGlasco-Quarter sized hail reported just west of Glasco.
July 2020Flash FloodGlasco-Water over a 100 foot stretch of road near Crest and 40th, and a roadway under water at the 200 section of Eagle Road.
June 2020Flash FloodGlasco-Ditches overflowed just east of Glasco with water over Highway 24.
May 2018Tornado (EF1)Glasco-This broad but weak tornado damaged several outbuildings and power lines along its path. End point based on an extrapolation of a video and radar data.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Multiple reports of medium-sized tree limbs down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Law enforcement estimated 60 MPH winds.
May 2016HailGlasco-Radar estimated the time of occurrence.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Estimated winds 70-80 mph. Tree damage unknown.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Tree limbs reported down in the area.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Winds estimated at 60 mph and large tree limbs down.
June 2011FloodGlasco-In Glasco, about 12 to 18 inches of water flooded the local residential streets.
September 2010Flash FloodGlasco-Water was flowing over several county roads along the Cloud and Mitchell county line. Ditches along Highway 24 in southwest Cloud County filled up.
June 2009HailGlasco-Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A weak 12 inch diameter tree blew down.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A spotter estimated 70 mph wind gust.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Four to six inch tree limbs reported to be down.
June 2008HailGlasco-Hail from the size of quarters to the size of golfballs was reported by spotters under this thunderstorm.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A large tree limb was blown down.
July 2001LightningGlasco-Lightning struck a wheat field and started a fire, but rain soon put it out.
April 2019HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2016HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2016HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2014HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2013HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2013HailGlasco-no account filed
October 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
October 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
February 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
July 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
March 2011HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
June 2008HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2008HailGlasco-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
March 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
March 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
September 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
April 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
May 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
February 2004HailGlasco-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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
Macyville8.7 miles16
Jamestown16.8 miles13
Yuma16.9 miles14
Concordia17.5 miles14
Huscher17.7 miles13
Aurora17.9 miles14
Cook17.9 miles13
Rosaco19.0 miles14

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 GlascoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2784273The 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 476141. 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.