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Greenleaf, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenleaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66943. The Survey maps it on the Greenleaf quadrangle. 350 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Greenleaf within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Greenleaf grew from 331 to 350 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
2010331
2020350+19 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Greenleaf between 2015 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 April 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLyon County47
31 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015006
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015004
9 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington County201701
25 February 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresLyon County25
18 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenleaf in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 25 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 1997Tornado (F0)Greenleaf$15,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf$2,000A total of 4 outbuildings were destroyed at this location as a result of a strong wind gust.
May 2023HailGreenleaf-Quarter sized hail reported from spotter network.
May 2023HailGreenleaf-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
June 2023HailGreenleaf-Quarter sized hail reported via mping.
April 2022HailGreenleaf-Quarter sized hail reported from mping.
September 2022HailGreenleaf-Nickel sized hail reported.
September 2022HailGreenleaf-Nickel sized hail reported.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-A few trees and limbs were down, sizes unknown.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-Estimated wind gust of 60 MPH.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-Penny size hail.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-A trained spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust, with 8 inch tree limbs down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-A trained spotter near Greenleaf measured a 65 mph wind gust.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-Two farm buildings were destroyed. Winds were estimated at 65 to 70 mph.
April 2026HailGreenleaf-no account filed
April 2025HailGreenleaf-no account filed
April 2025HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2020HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2017HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2012HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2012HailGreenleaf-no account filed
May 2011HailGreenleaf-no account filed
March 2011HailGreenleaf-no account filed
March 2011HailGreenleaf-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2008HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2004HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenleaf-no account filed
July 2001HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 2000HailGreenleaf-no account filed
October 1998HailGreenleaf-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenleaf-no account filed
April 1998HailGreenleaf-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Barnes5.5 miles15
Linn6.6 miles13
Washington7.3 miles13
Chepstow8.3 miles15
Kimeo9.2 miles15
Enosdale10.3 miles13
Palmer11.0 miles13
Hanover12.5 miles15

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 GreenleafAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2236678The 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 473149. 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.