Glen Elder, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glen Elder Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67446. It stands on Limestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen Elder South quadrangle. 362 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.
On record in Glen Elder
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
E. W. Norris Service Stationlisted 1976- Brown's Creek Tributary Masonry Arch Bridgelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresGlen Elder fell from 445 to 362 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 | 445 | |
| 2020 | 362 | -83 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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 Beloit quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Glen Elder South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Glen Elder between 2015 and 2018, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180011 |
| 20 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0007 |
| 18 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 160002 |
| 8 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 150033 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Elder in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 19 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Glen Elder | $500,000 | This tornado started near Glen Elder Dam in Mitchell County and moved northeast. It crossed into Jewell County about 4 miles west of Highway 14. Eye witness accounts stated that this tornado combined near the dam with a tornado that had formed to the southwest in Osborne County. Just to the east of the dam, the tornado damaged several outbuildings at a farmstead and uprooted many trees. Power lines and trees were snapped off when the twister crossed US Highway 24 to the east of the town of Glen Elder. Large power poles were broken and another farmstead sustained extensive damage just before the tornado moved into Jewell County. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Glen Elder | $125,000 | Widespread rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches were reported across the area, with the primary impact being numerous rural roads being covered in water and closed. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $75,000 | Wind gusts out ahead of and with this thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated near 70 mph. These wind gusts resulted in roof damage at a lumber yard in Glen Elder and a tree 18 inches in diameter being uprooted 4 miles south of town. Dime to nickel size hail was also reported, with some piles of hail being 6 inches deep. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Glen Elder | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | Hail ranged from half dollar to hen egg in size. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | Golf ball size hail occurred along with estimated 45 mph wind gusts at Glen Elder State Park. Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Glen Elder two minutes earlier at 4:15 p.m. CDT. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH knocked down tree limbs of 3 to 5 inches in diameter. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $5,000 | A tree limb up to 10 inches in diameter knocked down a HAM radio antenna. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $2,000 | Power lines were knocked down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet state located near Glen Elder. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | A mesonet site indicated a peak wind gust of 63 mph at 545 pm CDT. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Glen Elder | - | This is an unofficial public report relayed by KWCH-TV of a one hour rainfall total of 3.12 inches. Heavy rain occurred before and after this hour, however. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Glen Elder | - | Rainfall measured from the previous 12 hours at the automated gauge along the Solomon River was 4.63 inches. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | Nickel size hail was reported at the intersection of Highways 24 and 128 near Waconda Lake. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | A farmer reported penny size hail as he was working in his metal shed. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flood | Glen Elder | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon Rapids | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cawker City | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Beloit | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| Blue Hill | 13.5 miles | 12 | |
| Tipton | 13.8 miles | 12 | |
| Gilbert | 14.2 miles | 13 | |
| Victor | 17.3 miles | 12 | |
| Asherville | 18.7 miles | 15 |
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 Glen Elder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666618 | 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 472182. 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.




