Hays, Kansas

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Ellis County

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 11 records

• Chestnut Street Historic Districtlisted 2008
• Chestnut Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2011
• Drees Houselisted 2001
• Fort Hayslisted 1971
• Gallagher Houselisted 2001
• Justus Bissing, Jr. Historic Districtlisted 2004
• J.A. Mermis Houselisted 2009
• Phillip Hardware Storelisted 1982
• St. Joseph's Church and Parochial Schoollisted 2008
• First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1973
• Washington Grade Schoollisted 2021

Hays grew from 20,510 to 21,116 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.

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.

• 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hays North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Hays between 2015 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Toulon
• Yocemento
• Munjor

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hays: 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.

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hays in 237 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 129 hail, 87 thunderstorm wind, 10 heavy rain, 4 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Ellis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 475182. 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.