Home, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66438. The Survey maps it on the Home quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,345 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHome grew from 151 to 154 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 151 | |
| 2010 | 160 | +9 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 154 | -6 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1889 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Home between 2017 and 2020, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6142018 |
| 8 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Marshall County | 99 |
| 7 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Home in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Home | $810,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Home | - | Pine tree around 2 feet in diameter snapped at the base in Home, metal outbuilding took damage as well. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Home | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Home | - | Water reported covering the road south of the town of Home. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Home | - | Water reported over several roads with a depth of up to two feet in some places. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Home | - | Delayed report of multiple 8 inch tree limbs broken. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Home | - | Estimated 60 MPH winds and heavy rain reported. Power was reported out in Home City and Marysville. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Home | - | Mostly pea size but a few dimes and quarter size hail stones. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Home | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Home | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Home | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upland | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Carden | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Reedsville | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Winifred | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Beattie | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Marysville | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Marietta | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Oketo | 9.4 miles | 14 |
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 Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3886558 | 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 472923. 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.






