Hanover, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66945. The Survey maps it on the Hanover West quadrangle. 690 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
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On record in Hanover
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
Hollenberg Pony Express StationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Population over time
2 figuresHanover grew from 682 to 690 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 | 682 | |
| 2020 | 690 | +8 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hanover West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 2015 and 2017, burning about 162 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Washington County | 6 |
| 24 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington County | 11 |
| 28 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 16 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 4 |
| 24 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 27 December 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 26 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 39 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $500,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down 15 telephone poles and did extensive damage to trees and farm outbuildings. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Hanover | $12,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Hanover | $5,000 | Torrential rains of 5 to 6 inches brought fast flowing water of at least 6 inches across Kansas highway 148. |
| September 1999 | Lightning | Hanover | $3,000 | Lightning struck a residence and did minor damage. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hanover | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hanover | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Mping report of 1 inch tree limbs broken, shingles blown off. Time estimated from radar. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Tree limbs 1 inch in diameter blown down. Pea to nickel sized hail also reported. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Wind gust of 60 mph. Nickel sized hail also reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Hanover | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Hanover | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Power line reported down in Hanover. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Hanover | - | Report from photo on social media. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Hanover | - | Wind gusts also estimated between 50 and 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | Creek was out of its banks and flooding the county roads. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | Measured around 5 inches of rain in Hanover in about two and a half hours. Several streets in town were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter blown down. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Hanover | - | This was a delayed report, discovered on social media. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Numerous tree limbs were broken from 65 mph winds near Hanover. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Six inch tree limbs were down. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Washington. Small tree limbs were broken. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Hanover | - | Trained spotters reported mostly penny to nickle size hail, with a couple stones as large as quarters. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hanover | - | Several reports of penny to quarter size hail. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hanover | - | Predominately quarter sized hail with a few golfball sized mixed in. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hanover | - | Several windows broken by the hail. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Fallen large tree limbs caused a transformer fire. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Hanover | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spence | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Hollenberg | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Washington | 10.5 miles | 13 | |
| Greenleaf | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Barnes | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Morrowville | 15.9 miles | 13 | |
| Enosdale | 17.2 miles | 13 | |
| Linn | 18.3 miles | 13 |
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 Hanover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666605 | 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 472646. 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.






