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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.

Horton within Brown County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Horton 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,776
20201,523-253 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

31 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined15
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBrown County1738
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service18016
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresKansas Forest Service1500053
1 April 2015Debris and open burning44 acresKansas Forest Service1500049
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresKansas Forest Service1500047
8 March 2015Smoking27 acresKansas Forest Service1500028
7 March 2015Smoking35 acresKansas Forest Service1500027
23 March 2015Smoking36 acresKansas Forest Service1500043

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F0)Horton$100,000This 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 1994Thunderstorm WindHorton$50,000High winds knocked down trees in Horton and much of southern and western Brown County.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHorton$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn near Horton.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHorton$5,000Old deteriorated barn collapsed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHorton$5,000Strong winds blew down a tree onto a house and damaged some siding.
August 2004LightningHorton$3,000Lightning struck a home and did significant damage.
November 2021Thunderstorm WindHorton-Time estimated from radar.
June 2019Flash FloodHorton-Multiple streets were flooded.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHorton-Three RV's were blown onto their sides. Several tree branches down. Time and wind speed estimated from radar.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHorton-Police removed a four inch diameter limb from street.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHorton-A 10 inch diameter tree limb was broken. Time is estimated.
September 2007HailHorton-Measured quarter size hail report from Kickapoo Reservation Fire Department relayed to County Law Enforcement.
April 2006Tornado (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 2006Funnel CloudHorton-A large well documented funnel was visible to many and captured on film.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHorton-Wind instrument measured the gust.
September 2015HailHorton-no account filed
September 2015HailHorton-no account filed
August 2011HailHorton-no account filed
September 2010HailHorton-no account filed
May 2009HailHorton-no account filed
May 2009HailHorton-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHorton-no account filed
June 2006HailHorton-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHorton-no account filed
June 2001HailHorton-no account filed
May 2000HailHorton-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHorton-no account filed
June 1998HailHorton-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHorton-no account filed
July 1997HailHorton-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHorton-no account filed
May 1997HailHorton-no account filed
March 1995HailHorton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Willis4.6 miles17
Mercier5.2 miles17
Everest5.5 miles20
Baker6.7 miles18
Powhattan8.9 miles17
Robinson12.4 miles20
Hiawatha13.3 miles18
Fairview16.4 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 HortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901580The 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.