Hiawatha, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hiawatha City. It lies in ZIP code area 66434. The Survey maps it on the Hiawatha quadrangle. 3,280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.
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On record in Hiawatha
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 8 records
Samuel Bierer Houselisted 2010
Davis Memoriallisted 1977
A.J. Eicholtz Houselisted 2004
Seward Graham Houselisted 2008
Hiawatha Memorial Auditoriumlisted 1985
Hiawatha National Guard Armorylisted 2004- William and Augusta Guild Houselisted 2024
- Hiawatha Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2006
Population over time
3 figuresHiawatha grew from 1,375 to 3,280 between 1880 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,375 | |
| 2010 | 3,172 | |
| 2020 | 3,280 | +108 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hiawatha between 2015 and 2018, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 78 |
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Brown County | 78 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 23 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 50 |
| 9 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 31 |
| 7 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500026 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 6 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 23 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 95 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiawatha in 95 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 42 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 3 lightning. 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | $2,000,000 | Hiawatha had report of flooding of city streets. One resident has house flooded out and is being evacuated by city workers. Unofficial reports of 6 to 8 inches of rain with a few rural roads damaged by flash flooding. Flash flooding also severely damaged a low water impoundment dam on the Kickapoo Indian Reservation that is vital to their water supply. Total damage to the dam was estimated at 1.5 million dollars. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Hiawatha | $400,000 | Three farmsteads or businesses sustained damage with a total of 15 buildings damaged or destroyed. Several cars were rolled and a combine was moved a considerable distance. A salvage yard was near one of the houses damaged by the tornado. A hubcap from the salvage yard had become airborne and was impaled in the sheet rock in the living room of the house. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Hiawatha | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $20,000 | Trained spotters reported 70 to 80 mph winds across Brown County. Power lines were down in Everest and Robinson. Trees were snapped throughout the county, and in Robinson a grain elevator was heavily damaged. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $5,000 | Strong winds damaged a barn south of Hiawatha. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $3,000 | Strong winds damaged roofs. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $3,000 | Strong winds downed tree limbs and damaged power lines. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $3,000 | Strong winds damaged a barn south of Hiawatha. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Lightning | Hiawatha | $1,000 | An official from a local energy company said more than 3,500 customers were left without power after thunderstorms rolled across Hiawatha. Lightning hitting a power line was stated to be the cause of the outage. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | $500 | Numerous reports of fast flowing water over numerous streets and roads including Highway 75 and 36 as well as prairie road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Trees down in the city of Hiawatha. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Trees blown over with numerous tree limbs down in Hiawatha. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Estimated winds 60-65 MPH. Numerous tree limbs down, some 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter. Minor street flooding was also reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Numerous 3 inch, or larger diameter limbs were reported down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Power was out due to the winds. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Small tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Wind gusts were estimated. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Wind caused a roof to lift up and shift an outbuilding. Also half inch hail was falling. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Several power poles and one tree reported blown down in the city of Hiawatha. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | A tree and some powerlines were reported down in Hiawatha. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Hiawatha | - | A spotter reported a funnel cloud two miles northwest of Hiawatha, Kansas. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | A small stream swelled beyond it's banks and spilled over Hwy 73 north and east of Hiawatha. The highway was briefly closed because of flowing water over the roadway. Further north, Krestel Road, south of the town of Reserve, was also closed because of flowing water over the roadway. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Tree down in Hiawatha. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | Wind gust speed around 40 miles per hour also reported. |
| October 2007 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Four to six inches of water reported to be over roadways in Hiawatha. There were also two reports of heavy rainfall in Brown county. One report of 3.70 inches was received 3 miles WNW of Hiawatha, and one report was received in the town of Powhattan. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Running water 7 inches deep on both HWY 73 and Oregon Street within the city limits of Hiawatha. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Numerous telephone poles down, trailer blown off foundation, grain bins blown up against houses, trees down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Large tree branches down in the city. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | Pea to nickel sized hail. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Heavy rains from thunderstorms in the Hiawatha to Horton areas caused flash flooding with water over some roadways. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Heavy rains produced flash flooding. Many roads were flooded with some barracaded for a time. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Heavy rains produced flash flooding and caused some roads to be covered by water for a time. |
| September 2001 | Flash Flood | Hiawatha | - | Runoff from heavy rains flooded some roads near Hiawatha. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Hiawatha | - | The storm that earlier produced a tornado near Fairview moved northeast and spawned another touchdown north of Hiawatha. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | 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 Hiawatha | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1829823 | 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 472987. 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.








