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.
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
Glasco Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2002
Pott's Ford Bridgelisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresGlasco 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 498 | |
| 2020 | 441 | -57 (-11%) |
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.
- 1892 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Glasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Clay 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 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 110 |
| 3 December 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 114 |
| 9 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 22 |
| 3 October 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 113 |
| 27 January 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ottawa County | 201701 |
Storms near this place
60 of 88 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | $28,000 | strong winds destroyed several outbuildings and a shed at a farmstead. A shed and pickup camper in it were also destroyed. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Wind gust of 60 mph reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Glasco | - | Quarter sized hail reported just west of Glasco. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Glasco | - | 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Glasco | - | Ditches overflowed just east of Glasco with water over Highway 24. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Multiple reports of medium-sized tree limbs down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Law enforcement estimated 60 MPH winds. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Glasco | - | Radar estimated the time of occurrence. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Estimated winds 70-80 mph. Tree damage unknown. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Tree limbs reported down in the area. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Winds estimated at 60 mph and large tree limbs down. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Glasco | - | In Glasco, about 12 to 18 inches of water flooded the local residential streets. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Glasco | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Glasco | - | Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | A weak 12 inch diameter tree blew down. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | A spotter estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | Four to six inch tree limbs reported to be down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glasco | - | Hail from the size of quarters to the size of golfballs was reported by spotters under this thunderstorm. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | A large tree limb was blown down. |
| July 2001 | Lightning | Glasco | - | Lightning struck a wheat field and started a fire, but rain soon put it out. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| October 2012 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| October 2012 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Glasco | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasco | - | 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 Glasco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2784273 | 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 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.





