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Hamlin, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hamlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66434. The Survey maps it on the Morrill quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Hamlin within Brown County

On record in Hamlin

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

Hamlin fell from 46 to 25 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
201046
202025-21 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hamlin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 288 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 June 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresBrown County78
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrown County12
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service31
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service11
31 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service39
31 March 2005Debris and open burning89 acresHorton AgencyFINGER
3 March 2017Arson/incendiarism100 acresBrown County7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamlin in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2023Tornado (EF2)Hamlin-A tornado touched down north of Hamlin and moves north-northeast producing some tree damage and overturning a center pivot before hitting a homestead. Outbuildings were completely destroyed with winds estimated to be 112 mph. The home sustained damage to the siding and roof with the windows broken out. The tornado dissipated after hitting the homestead.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHamlin-Report of 60 mph wind gust.
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Hamlin-A small brief tornado developed along a line of storms. It tracked northeast and damaged one known farmstead. Start and end points and time is estimated based on tornado damage signature dual-pol radar data and damage report. Estimated path of 3-4 miles.
May 2011HailHamlin-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHamlin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Morrill3.5 miles17
Padonia3.5 miles17
Sun Springs4.4 miles17
Reserve5.5 miles17
Hiawatha6.6 miles18
Fairview7.4 miles17
Powhattan10.7 miles17
Baker11.7 miles18

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 HamlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2781181The 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 472770. 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.