Hartford, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elmendaro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66854. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
On record in Hartford
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
Hartford Collegiate Institutelisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresHartford fell from 371 to 355 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 | 371 | |
| 2020 | 355 | -16 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
182 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Hartford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,180 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 were 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 burning | 100 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | K130CIG |
| 30 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | GILLIGAN |
| 17 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | COONHAMMAN |
| 3 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | STUBLE |
| 17 July 1995 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | PATSFIRE |
| 11 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | ATHERLY HILL WF 2003 |
| 1 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | WILSON |
| 29 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | SLAYMAKER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hartford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Hartford | $20,000 | The tornado touched down 3 miles SW of Hartford and moved nroth to 1.5 miles west of Hartford. The tornado produced F0 damage to buildings on three farmsteads and several other outbuildings along its path. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell within a bow echo. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Personal weather station measured a gust of 67 mph. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Hartford | - | Report of water flowing over the road in places along Road 30. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Hartford | - | The media reported 3 to 4 feet of water over the roadway. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Estimated winds to around 70 mph. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Hartford | - | A photo of a possible brief tornado was received from radio media. No damage occurred. Time estimated. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Hartford | - | Report was relayed from KVOE. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Tree was uprooted and damage to a farmstead including broken windows. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Trees and power pole down at the intersection of road 80 and road V. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Hartford | - | A road was washed out .5 mile north of Road 110 just outside Hartford. Spotter reported road under water well into Coffee County as well. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Large branches were broken off, and deck chairs were blown off the porch. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | The city has lost power. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Three foot diameter trees were uprooted, and several one foot diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Hartford | - | County dispatch relayed several public reports of two funnel clouds in close vicinity to one another in the southwest corner of Lyon County. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Several tree limbs, the largest twelve inches in diameter, were reported down around the town of Hartford. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Hartford | - | Nearly every road in town was flooded. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs reported down. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hartford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hartford | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Hartford | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Hartford | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hartford | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neosho Rapids | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Olpe | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lang | 12.5 miles | 17 | |
| Emporia Junction | 12.7 miles | 18 | |
| Emporia | 13.7 miles | 18 | |
| Reading | 14.6 miles | 14 | |
| Berkeley Hills | 14.6 miles | 18 | |
| Merrick | 16.6 miles | 18 |
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 Hartford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2222873 | 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 477441. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.








