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Gypsum, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eureka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67448. It stands on Hobbs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gypsum quadrangle. 400 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Gypsum within Saline County

On record in Gypsum

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gypsum fell from 405 to 400 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
2010405
2020400-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Gypsum between 2016 and 2017, burning about 7 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSaline County21
2 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSaline County17
15 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSaline County29
13 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSaline County27
29 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service96
17 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service91

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gypsum in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash 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
July 2019Flash FloodGypsum$30,000Emergency management conducted water rescues across the northeast portion of Gypsum, due to flash flooding along the Gypsum Creek.
July 2019Flash FloodGypsum$10,000Emergency management reported either to twelve water rescues in Gypsum and Kipp due to rising water.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGypsum$3,000A power pole was downed at the intersection of 3rd and King, and 4-inch tree limbs were downed in and around Gypsum. Courtesy of The Salina Journal.
June 2022FloodGypsum$100Water covered a portion of Kansas Highway 4 due to flooding. Most of the flood waters were associated with the swollen Gypsum Creek.
March 2024HailGypsum-Pea to quarter sized hail was reported near Gypsum. Small hail was coating the ground.
May 2021FloodGypsum-Water was reported over Hobbs Creek road.
July 2020Heavy RainGypsum-This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.97 inches.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGypsum-Reported by the mesonet site.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGypsum-This report was via the Kansas Mesonet.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGypsum-This was a measured wind speed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGypsum-There were no reports of damage.
October 2016Tornado (EF3)Gypsum-A manufactured double wide home which was held down by straps was completely lifted and destroyed. Additionally a jeep was rolled approximately 200 yards; there was damage to other farm equipment which was tossed from their original locations. Another homestead received significant tree damage along the path. All farm machinery was thrown across the property. Of significance was a combine that was rolled about 75 yards.
July 2013FloodGypsum-Water covered Kansas Highway 4 south of Gypsum.
July 2013FloodGypsum-The roads were closed near the intersection of Donmyer Road and Hobbs Creek Road due to flooding.
May 2010HailGypsum-Report was from a KAKE Television chaser.
May 2010HailGypsum-Report was from a KAKE Television chaser.
May 2010HailGypsum-The hail covered the ground.
May 2010HailGypsum-The hail covered the ground.
August 2003HailGypsum-Radio station KSAL.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGypsum-no account filed
May 2019HailGypsum-no account filed
June 2016HailGypsum-no account filed
March 2009HailGypsum-no account filed
March 2009HailGypsum-no account filed
May 2005HailGypsum-no account filed
June 2005HailGypsum-no account filed
July 2003HailGypsum-no account filed
May 2002HailGypsum-no account filed
June 1999HailGypsum-no account filed
May 1997HailGypsum-no account filed
May 1995HailGypsum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Kipp5.6 miles16
Hallville7.0 miles16
Assaria9.5 miles16
Mentor9.6 miles16
Bridgeport11.2 miles16
New Cambria12.7 miles16
Salina13.4 miles16
Salemsborg13.7 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 GypsumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357309The 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 476963. 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.