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Holcomb, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sherlock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67851. The Survey maps it on the Garden City West quadrangle. 2,245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,884 feet above sea level.

Holcomb within Finney County

Population over time

2 figures

Holcomb grew from 2,094 to 2,245 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
20102,094
20202,245+151 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

50 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Holcomb between 2002 and 2020, burning about 10,068 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Fireworks11
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
9 August 2002Natural18 acresGreeley Countynot named
4 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFinney County465
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service387
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service31
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service394
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service33
20 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFinney County511
2 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreFinney County451

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Finney County

Storms near this place

60 of 118 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holcomb in 118 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 73 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 5 heavy rain. 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
September 1993HailHolcomb$5,000,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$1,500,000Significant roof damage occurred at the Holcomb High School.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$1,000,000Major damage was done to the Holcomb power plant. The roof was blown off the boiler house, panels blown off the sides of the building and 9 empty coal cars were blown over.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$1,000,000Sunflower electric reported damage as greater than 60 knot thunderstorm wind passed through. A six story coal stacker was moved 240 feet! Damage was done to the stacker and coal cars.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$100,000Damage was done to pivot irrigation sprinklers, to a house and to a fence.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$50,000A pivot irrigation sprinkler was overturned.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHolcomb$50,000High winds caused roof damage in Holcomb, picked up and carried trash dumpsters over parked vehicles, and blew the windows out of vehicles.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Report of a 59 mph wind gust received from AWN Casade Rodney observation site.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Report from mPing indicated a tree was uprooted and a roof was blown off a building.
July 2018Heavy RainHolcomb-Rainfall of 2.70 inches was observed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Observed at the Holcomb middle school.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
July 2012Heavy RainHolcomb-Rainfall of 2.00 inches was observed.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-The winds were estimated to be at least 60 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-This wind report was from the KSN weather lab in Holcomb.
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Holcomb-This was a landspout that developed southwest of Garden City but occurred over sand hills full of sage brush and did not cause any damage.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-The wind was measured at a KSNW weatherlab site.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Damage was done to trees.
August 2007HailHolcomb-There was high wind with this hail.
August 2007Heavy RainHolcomb-Four inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
August 2007Heavy RainHolcomb-Three inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Trees were uprooted by the high wind.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Numerous shingles were blown off.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Holcomb-This was another brief spinup under the mesocyclone.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-From the KSN-TV weather lab.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Location is at a KSN-TV weather lab site
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-The wind was measured on KSN-TV weather lab equipment
June 2002Tornado (F0)Holcomb-This landspout tornado did no damage.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Three inch limbs blown down
May 2001Flash FloodHolcomb-Water was over highway 50.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-School weather lab.
May 1999HailHolcomb-Had 55 mph wind along with the hail.
June 1999HailHolcomb-On Finney/Kearny county line.
May 1995HailHolcomb-Although damage was F1, this tornado was rated higher based on observation and video. Damage was done to two golf courses, a few house roofs, power lines, and one overturned tractor-semitrailer at the dying stage of the tornado.
May 1995HailHolcomb-Although damage was F1, this tornado was rated higher based on observation and video. Damage was done to two golf courses, a few house roofs, power lines, and one overturned tractor-semitrailer at the dying stage of the tornado.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-High winds caused roof damage in Holcomb, picked up and carried trash dumpsters over parked vehicles, and blew the windows out of vehicles.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Tornado touched down briefly in an open field near Jennie Baker Road and Mary Street.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Holcomb-A tornado touched down briefly with no damage or injuries reported.
August 1993HailHolcomb-Large tree limbs were knocked down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-Large tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2024HailHolcomb-no account filed
June 2024HailHolcomb-no account filed
June 2024HailHolcomb-no account filed
July 2023Heavy RainHolcomb-no account filed
August 2023HailHolcomb-no account filed
August 2023HailHolcomb-no account filed
April 2022HailHolcomb-no account filed
April 2022HailHolcomb-no account filed
June 2020HailHolcomb-no account filed
July 2019HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2017HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2017HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2017HailHolcomb-no account filed
June 2017HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudHolcomb-no account filed
May 2016HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2015HailHolcomb-no account filed
May 2015HailHolcomb-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHolcomb-no account filed
June 2014HailHolcomb-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Finney 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
Rodkey2.8 miles10
Quinby3.2 miles14
Lowe3.2 miles10
Ritchal3.8 miles8
Peterson5.2 miles8
Garden City6.3 miles14
Wolf6.6 miles8
Mansfield12.6 miles14

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 HolcombAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q951266The 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 471611. 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.