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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.

Highland within Doniphan County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Highland 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,012
2020903-109 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

9 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service22
7 March 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
7 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6
3 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDoniphan County4
28 February 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
20 February 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHighland$10,000Powerlines blown down. Large tree toppled on house.
April 1995HailHighland$35A 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 1995HailHighland$10A 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 2023HailHighland-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Highland.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHighland-A large pine tree around 12 inches in diameter was uprooted near Highland.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland-Public reported a large tree down across a road in town.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHighland-An emergency manager reported 70 mph winds near Highland.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHighland-A large tree was reported down in Highland. The report was acquired via social media.
May 2005Flash FloodHighland-Heavy rains closed the intersection at U36 and County Road 120.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHighland-Trees reported down.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHighland-Law enforcement reported wind gusts to 66 mph.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHighland-Storm spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHighland-Highland City Hall reported large tree limbs blown down in Highland as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2019HailHighland-no account filed
May 2019HailHighland-no account filed
May 2018HailHighland-no account filed
May 2011HailHighland-no account filed
June 2011HailHighland-no account filed
March 2008HailHighland-no account filed
March 2006HailHighland-no account filed
March 2006HailHighland-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed
August 2005HailHighland-no account filed
July 2004HailHighland-no account filed
June 2002HailHighland-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed
June 1996HailHighland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Sparks4.2 miles23
Iowa Point5.0 miles23
Leona5.7 miles19
Fanning6.0 miles23
Severance6.5 miles23
White Cloud8.2 miles22
Moray8.5 miles23
Denton8.8 miles20

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 HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q740230The 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.