Gridley, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66852. The Survey maps it on the Gridley quadrangle. 313 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGridley fell from 341 to 313 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 | 341 | |
| 2020 | 313 | -28 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Gridley between 2015 and 2018, burning about 114 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Coffey County | 375 |
| 13 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 218 |
| 8 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 167 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 156 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 141 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 138 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 137 |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 207 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gridley in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 19 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | $1,000 | Limbs around 4 to 6 inch down near gridley. delayed report. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | $500 | A member of the public reported two inch tree limbs broken. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Small tree limb damage. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Gridley | - | Golf ball sized hail reported. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Report of a large 120 year old tree uprooted and an electric pole snapped. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Numerous 6 inch or greater tree limbs down throughout the town. Power lines down and hanging on some homes. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Gridley | - | Creek has washed out a road. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Gridley | - | Water was running across Highway 58. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Gridley | - | Mostly dime size hail with a few quarter size. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Farm outbuilding was blown apart. The prior condition of the outbuilding was unknown. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Reports of power line down. Multiple tree limbs down as well. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Gridley | - | Report from KVOE and time estimated from radar. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Report of 3 power poles and lines down. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 60 mph wind. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Gridley | - | A tornado was reported by the Gridley Fire Chief who relayed the report through county emergency management. The eyewitness account states that the circulation was on visible on the ground in a field for approximately 3 to 5 minutes while moving slowly east northeast. No damage was reported. |
| September 2009 | Flood | Gridley | - | County dispatch reports that numerous roads around Gridley have some water over them. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Gridley | - | Relayed by local law enforcement. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | The emergency manager for Coffey County reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | Extensive damage to power poles in and around the town of Gridley. Several poles were reported to have been snapped in half. A garage was also reported to have blown down. Power remained out in portions of the town through the following afternoon. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Gridley | - | Heavy rains produced flash flooding near Gridley. Water was reported over Highway 57 for a time. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Gridley | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gridley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington | 10.0 miles | 17 | |
| Jacobs Creek Landing | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Ottumwa | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| LeRoy | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| New Strawn | 13.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sharpe | 16.3 miles | 16 | |
| Aliceville | 18.0 miles | 17 | |
| Halls Summit | 20.4 miles | 16 |
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 Gridley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2271109 | 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 478069. 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.








