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Holton, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66436. It stands on Banner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holton quadrangle. 3,401 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Holton within Jackson County

On record in Holton

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Holton grew from 3,329 to 3,401 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
20103,329
20203,401+72 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Holton between 2006 and 2018, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHorton AgencyHERMESCH
12 August 2015Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service53
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service34
7 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County40
5 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service35
24 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service41
23 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County41
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service39

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

60 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holton in 74 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2006LightningHolton$75,000Lightning struck a watershed district building and showered down fist sized pieces of concrete to the street below. One piece of concrete hit and damaged a car.
April 2005HailHolton$50,000Hail damaged windshields and roofs of some outbuildings.
June 2005Flash FloodHolton$50,000Debris field along road indicated water of 10 to 15 inches deep had been flowing over the road. Also, a nearby roadway was washed out. The next day after the water had receded, a man sustained serious but indirect injuries when he drove over a culvert on the road. The culvert collapsed under the weight of the car he was driving.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHolton$50,000High winds damaged a metal shed south of Holton.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHolton$5,000Strong winds blew down tree limbs that damaged power lines.
September 1998LightningHolton$5,000Lightning struck a transformer doing damage to it and causing about an hour long power outage in part of Holton.
July 2011HailHolton$1,000A west-facing sliding glass patio door was broken.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHolton$1,000Strong winds blew over a construction trailer.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindHolton-Gust to 60 mph measured on personal weather station southwest of Holton.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Holton-A tornado touched down just north of Holton damaging a well constructed barn. Large portions of the roof were blown off and some of the walls were blown out from winds estimated to be up to 90 mph. The tornado skipped northeast across the county side and produced some tree damage as it moved towards Straight Creek.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHolton-Measured on a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHolton-Measured on a personal weather station.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHolton-Report of 8 to 10 inch tree limb down.
October 2021HailHolton-Report of hail slightly less than 1 inch in diameter.
April 2020HailHolton-Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2020HailHolton-Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2020Flash FloodHolton-Widespread flash flooding, with multiple streets under water. Up to 8 inches deep in spots. Photos via social media.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHolton-Tree blown down, size was unknown.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHolton-A tree was reported down, the size was unknown.
June 2015FloodHolton-Several roads remain closed due to flooding. Elk creek from Circleville to the Atchison county line is out of its banks. There are a couple of bridges that were damaged, one of which may fail near Whiting.
May 2013Flash FloodHolton-Reports of moving water over the roadway near Q4 rd and 254th st.
May 2013FloodHolton-Truck reported water over the roadway on US75 at mile marker 201.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHolton-Tree blown down on car in Holton on highway 16.
July 2010FloodHolton-Water was reported over Old Highway 75, north of Holton.
August 2006LightningHolton-Lightning struck and entered the attic of a home in the town of Holton, starting a fire, which was quickly put out by local firefighters.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHolton-4 to 5 inch diameter live tree limbs reported down. Pieces of bark were also strippped from some trees.
April 2004Flash FloodHolton-Heavy rain produced flash flooding. Water was reported over highway 75 south of Holton for a time.
June 2001Flash FloodHolton-Heavy rains of 6 to 11 inches caused flooding in many areas. Many roads were closed and extensive crop damage occurred. Many small creeks and streams went out of their banks for a time. The heavy rains occurred over a 24 hour period beginning early on the 19th.
September 2001Flash FloodHolton-Runoff from heavy rains flooded several roads north of Holton.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHolton-Winds around 60 mph and marble-size hail caused no significant damage.
June 2024HailHolton-no account filed
June 2024HailHolton-no account filed
June 2015HailHolton-no account filed
June 2015HailHolton-no account filed
March 2015HailHolton-no account filed
April 2014HailHolton-no account filed
October 2014HailHolton-no account filed
October 2014HailHolton-no account filed
June 2013HailHolton-no account filed
March 2012HailHolton-no account filed
June 2011HailHolton-no account filed
May 2011HailHolton-no account filed
May 2010HailHolton-no account filed
May 2010HailHolton-no account filed
March 2006HailHolton-no account filed
August 2006HailHolton-no account filed
April 2005HailHolton-no account filed
April 2005HailHolton-no account filed
June 2005HailHolton-no account filed
June 2005HailHolton-no account filed
June 2005HailHolton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHolton-no account filed
June 2005HailHolton-no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHolton-no account filed
June 2004HailHolton-no account filed
June 2002HailHolton-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHolton-no account filed
September 2002HailHolton-no account filed
October 2002HailHolton-no account filed
September 2002HailHolton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Birmingham4.8 miles18
Circleville7.1 miles17
Carbon (historical)7.4 miles18
Denison7.7 miles18
Mayetta8.8 miles17
Netawaka9.5 miles17
Whiting10.8 miles18
Soldier13.0 miles17

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 HoltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901483The 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 478194. 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.