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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.

Hartford within Lyon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hartford 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.

YearPeople Change
2010371
2020355-16 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

182 since 1992

Regional 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 burning100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
1 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeK130CIG
30 August 1993Arson/incendiarism12 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeGILLIGAN
17 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeCOONHAMMAN
3 July 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeSTUBLE
17 July 1995Debris and open burning7.0 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugePATSFIRE
11 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeATHERLY HILL WF 2003
1 July 1997Debris and open burning45 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeWILSON
29 June 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeSLAYMAKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jones QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

23 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Tornado (F0)Hartford$20,000The 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 2023Thunderstorm WindHartford-Personal weather station measured a gust of 67 mph.
June 2022Flash FloodHartford-Report of water flowing over the road in places along Road 30.
June 2022Flash FloodHartford-The media reported 3 to 4 feet of water over the roadway.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHartford-Estimated winds to around 70 mph.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Hartford-A photo of a possible brief tornado was received from radio media. No damage occurred. Time estimated.
August 2016HailHartford-Report was relayed from KVOE.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHartford-Tree was uprooted and damage to a farmstead including broken windows.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHartford-Trees and power pole down at the intersection of road 80 and road V.
April 2010Flash FloodHartford-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 2009Thunderstorm WindHartford-Large branches were broken off, and deck chairs were blown off the porch.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHartford-The city has lost power.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford-Three foot diameter trees were uprooted, and several one foot diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2008Funnel CloudHartford-County dispatch relayed several public reports of two funnel clouds in close vicinity to one another in the southwest corner of Lyon County.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford-Several tree limbs, the largest twelve inches in diameter, were reported down around the town of Hartford.
June 2008Flash FloodHartford-Nearly every road in town was flooded.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHartford-Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
June 2009HailHartford-no account filed
June 2008HailHartford-no account filed
November 2005HailHartford-no account filed
April 2003HailHartford-no account filed
May 2002HailHartford-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHartford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Neosho Rapids4.6 miles16
Olpe11.6 miles16
Lang12.5 miles17
Emporia Junction12.7 miles18
Emporia13.7 miles18
Reading14.6 miles14
Berkeley Hills14.6 miles18
Merrick16.6 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 HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2222873The 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.