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.
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
- Bethany Brethren Churchlisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresHamlin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 46 | |
| 2020 | 25 | -21 (-46%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Morrill quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Brown County | 78 |
| 28 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 12 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 89 acres | Horton Agency | FINGER |
| 3 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Brown County | 7 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamlin | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. |
| October 2018 | Tornado (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 2011 | Hail | Hamlin | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamlin | - | 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.
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 Hamlin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2781181 | 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 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.








