Horton, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Horton City. It lies in ZIP code area 66439. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle. 1,523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.
On record in Horton
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 3 records
US Post Office-Hortonlisted 1989- Fete Apartmentslisted 2019
- Horton Civic Centerlisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresHorton fell from 1,776 to 1,523 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 | 1,776 | |
| 2020 | 1,523 | -253 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Horton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 658 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Brown County | 1738 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18016 |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500053 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500049 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500047 |
| 8 March 2015 | Smoking | 27 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500028 |
| 7 March 2015 | Smoking | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500027 |
| 23 March 2015 | Smoking | 36 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500043 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Horton | $100,000 | This brief tornado touched down at 5:40pm cst 2 miles NW of Horton in Brown County and was on the ground for 1 mile before lifting 2.5 miles NNW of Horton at 5:43pm cst. It had a path width of 50 yards. The tornado destroyed 2 outbuildings, and caused minor damage to trees and a home along its 1 mile long path, with the damage estimated at $100,000. It was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $50,000 | High winds knocked down trees in Horton and much of southern and western Brown County. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn near Horton. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $5,000 | Old deteriorated barn collapsed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $5,000 | Strong winds blew down a tree onto a house and damaged some siding. |
| August 2004 | Lightning | Horton | $3,000 | Lightning struck a home and did significant damage. |
| November 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Horton | - | Multiple streets were flooded. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Three RV's were blown onto their sides. Several tree branches down. Time and wind speed estimated from radar. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Police removed a four inch diameter limb from street. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | A 10 inch diameter tree limb was broken. Time is estimated. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Horton | - | Measured quarter size hail report from Kickapoo Reservation Fire Department relayed to County Law Enforcement. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Horton | - | This F0 tornado moved 10 miles through Jackson County before crossing the border into Brown County 3 miles west of Horton. At times, it was 100 yards wide, and was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm. No damage was noted in Brown County. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Horton | - | A large well documented funnel was visible to many and captured on film. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Wind instrument measured the gust. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Horton | - | 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.
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 Horton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2901580 | 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 473244. 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.








