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Greensburg, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kiowa Rural Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67054. The Survey maps it on the Greensburg quadrangle. 740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,234 feet above sea level.

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Greensburg within Kiowa County

On record in Greensburg

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

Greensburg fell from 777 to 740 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
2010777
2020740-37 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Greensburg between 2012 and 2016, burning about 437 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015017
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined420 acresKansas Counties2012019 GRASS
12 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015009
4 December 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015021
22 January 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kiowa County

Storms near this place

60 of 172 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greensburg in 172 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 113 hail, 37 thunderstorm wind, 14 tornado, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$70,000Pivot sprinkler overturned...siding stripped off a house and a shed was destroyed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$50,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$30,000All out buildings destroyed.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$10,000Barn destroyed and trees uprooted.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$8,000Downburst removed a tin roof off a building and damaged part of the wall.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$5,000Roof blown off a modular home under construction
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$2,000Four power poles were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreensburg$1,500Power poles blown down.
May 2025Tornado (EF3)Greensburg-A NWS storm survey confirmed reports of a tornado. Some damage included broken power poles, tree trunk snaped, an irrigation pivot broken and tossed.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-A personal weather station, Kents station, recorded a 71 mph wind gust.
September 2025HailGreensburg-A storm chaser reported 1 inch hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-A 65 mph wind gust was reported.
May 2024Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall report of 2.39 inches.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-There was significant tree damage.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-There was roof damage.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-There was single damage to a roof.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind.
September 2019HailGreensburg-Mostly dime sized hail was observed but a few the size of a quarter were noted.
September 2018FloodGreensburg-Water was flowing across highway 183.
May 2018FloodGreensburg-Flood water in fields spilled out onto several county roads.
May 2018HailGreensburg-Hail was around 6 inches deep. Hail fog formed and reduced the visibility.
June 2017HailGreensburg-Golf ball and baseball sized hail was observed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
December 2016Tornado (EF0)Greensburg-This QLCS damaged a few trees and destroyed a small shed and carried the debris around 100 yards.
July 2014Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall of 4.65 was reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-A very large tree branch was blown down across a power line.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2012HailGreensburg-Hail ranged from golf ball to tennis ball size.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Wind gusts of 60 MPH were reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-The home lost shingles due to the high wind gusts.
July 2012Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall of 1.48 was observed.
July 2012Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall of 1.90 was observed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-An 80 foot tall pine tree was uprooted. This appeared to be the forward flank downdraft of a large rotating supercell thunderstorm.
August 2010Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall of 2.53 was observed.
June 2010Heavy RainGreensburg-Rainfall of 3.66 was reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-The storm chaser estimated winds of 60 mph.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Greensburg-This was a small tornado that passed over farmland.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Greensburg-While doing a storm survey and in the town of Greensburg, this tornado was observed moving rapidly north but west of Greensburg. It did EF1 damage to a barn.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Greensburg-This was another satellite tornado (to the big Greensburg tornado) that appeared to be anticyclonic. It did not strike anything.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Greensburg-Yet another satellite tornado associated with the large Greensburg tornado. This satellite tornado did not strike anything to damage.
September 2006Tornado (F0)Greensburg-This was very brief tornado.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Greensburg-This weak tornado (Landspout) drifted northeast without hitting anything.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Greensburg-This was a very brief tornado (but not a gustnado).
May 2002Tornado (F1)Greensburg-This very large tornado moved straight east and entered Pratt county at 1856 CST. At times the circulation was over a mile wide.
May 2001HailGreensburg-Hail swath in the vicinity was 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. Considerable of crop damage.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Greensburg-Brief contact with the ground from this landspout.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Greensburg-Tornado started in Kiowa county but did the damage in Edwards county.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Five inch diameter branches broken.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindGreensburg-Large tree limbs blown down.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Greensburg-Tornado touched down briefly over open farm land. This tornado was probably spawned from the same storm which tracked across Seward, Meade, and Clark Counties.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Greensburg-Tornado moved over open farmland with no damage or injuries reported.
October 2023HailGreensburg-no account filed
June 2019HailGreensburg-no account filed
May 2018HailGreensburg-no account filed
May 2018HailGreensburg-no account filed
June 2018HailGreensburg-no account filed
June 2018HailGreensburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kiowa 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
Brenham4.5 miles18
Joy5.4 miles18
Mullinville9.8 miles18
Haviland9.9 miles18
Wellsford14.0 miles18
Belvidere15.4 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 GreensburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988732The 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 474258. 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.