Highland, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Iowa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66035. The Survey maps it on the Highland quadrangle. 903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.
On record in Highland
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 10 records
Highland Christian Churchlisted 2007
Highland Presbyterian Churchlisted 2007
Iowa, Sac, and Fox Presbyterian Missionlisted 1970
Irvin Hall, Highland Community Junior Collegelisted 1971
St. Martha's AME Church and Parsonagelisted 2000
A.L. Wynkoop Houselisted 2007- First National Bank Buildinglisted 2008
- John R. Hale Barnlisted 1987
- Highland Water Tower
- Abram M. Minier Houselisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresHighland fell from 1,012 to 903 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 | 1,012 | |
| 2020 | 903 | -109 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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 Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 2015 and 2018, burning about 31 acres in total. None 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 11 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 22 |
| 7 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 3 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Doniphan County | 4 |
| 28 February 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 20 February 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $10,000 | Powerlines blown down. Large tree toppled on house. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Highland | $35 | A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0) |
| April 1995 | Hail | Highland | $10 | A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0) |
| April 2023 | Hail | Highland | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported in Highland. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | A large pine tree around 12 inches in diameter was uprooted near Highland. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Public reported a large tree down across a road in town. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | An emergency manager reported 70 mph winds near Highland. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | A large tree was reported down in Highland. The report was acquired via social media. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Highland | - | Heavy rains closed the intersection at U36 and County Road 120. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Trees reported down. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Law enforcement reported wind gusts to 66 mph. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Storm spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Highland City Hall reported large tree limbs blown down in Highland as a result of severe thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Highland | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Highland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparks | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Iowa Point | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| Leona | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Fanning | 6.0 miles | 23 | |
| Severance | 6.5 miles | 23 | |
| White Cloud | 8.2 miles | 22 | |
| Moray | 8.5 miles | 23 | |
| Denton | 8.8 miles | 20 |
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 Highland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q740230 | 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 473010. 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.









