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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.

Gridley within Coffey County

Population over time

2 figures

Gridley 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.

YearPeople Change
2010341
2020313-28 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

12 since 2015

Regional 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 burning11
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
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCoffey County375
13 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service218
8 April 2015Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service167
4 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service156
9 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service141
31 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service138
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service137
30 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service207

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGridley$1,000Limbs around 4 to 6 inch down near gridley. delayed report. Time estimated from radar.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGridley$500A member of the public reported two inch tree limbs broken.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGridley-Small tree limb damage.
May 2023HailGridley-Golf ball sized hail reported.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGridley-Report of a large 120 year old tree uprooted and an electric pole snapped.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGridley-Numerous 6 inch or greater tree limbs down throughout the town. Power lines down and hanging on some homes.
May 2019Flash FloodGridley-Creek has washed out a road.
May 2019Flash FloodGridley-Water was running across Highway 58.
April 2018HailGridley-Mostly dime size hail with a few quarter size.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGridley-Farm outbuilding was blown apart. The prior condition of the outbuilding was unknown.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGridley-Reports of power line down. Multiple tree limbs down as well.
April 2014HailGridley-Report from KVOE and time estimated from radar.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGridley-Report of 3 power poles and lines down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGridley-A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGridley-A law enforcement officer reported an estimated 60 mph wind.
June 2010Tornado (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 2009FloodGridley-County dispatch reports that numerous roads around Gridley have some water over them.
April 2009HailGridley-Relayed by local law enforcement.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGridley-The emergency manager for Coffey County reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGridley-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 2002Flash FloodGridley-Heavy rains produced flash flooding near Gridley. Water was reported over Highway 57 for a time.
April 2026HailGridley-no account filed
April 2026HailGridley-no account filed
April 2019HailGridley-no account filed
May 2019HailGridley-no account filed
April 2018HailGridley-no account filed
April 2008HailGridley-no account filed
April 2008HailGridley-no account filed
April 2008HailGridley-no account filed
April 2008HailGridley-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGridley-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGridley-no account filed
June 2005HailGridley-no account filed
March 2003HailGridley-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGridley-no account filed
May 2000HailGridley-no account filed
September 2000HailGridley-no account filed
June 1998HailGridley-no account filed
June 1996HailGridley-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGridley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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
Burlington10.0 miles17
Jacobs Creek Landing11.6 miles16
Ottumwa13.2 miles16
LeRoy13.2 miles16
New Strawn13.6 miles16
Sharpe16.3 miles16
Aliceville18.0 miles17
Halls Summit20.4 miles16

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 GridleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2271109The 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.