Hunter, Kansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Custer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67452. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle. 51 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.
On record in Hunter
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 1 record
North Rock Creek Masonry Arch Bridgelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresHunter fell from 57 to 51 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 | 57 | |
| 2020 | 51 | -6 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1894 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hunter between 2017 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
| 3 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mitchell County | 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 22 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Hunter | $50,000 | The tornado moved in from Lincoln county and dissipated before hitting Tipton. (see Lincoln county entry for more details) |
| October 2017 | Hail | Hunter | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Hunter | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Hunter | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hunter | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hunter | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hunter | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hunter | $500 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Hunter | - | Delayed report via CoCoRaHS, time estimated from radar. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Hunter | - | Quarter size hail was accompanied by estimated 60 MPH wind gusts. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and were accompanied by quarter size hail. |
| May 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hunter | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.50 inches was measured. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hunter | - | The 24-hour rainfall was 3.20, the vast majority of which fell between 6-10 p.m. CDT. |
| May 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hunter | - | Storm total rainfall was 3.77 inches. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were reported. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Hunter | - | The Cooperative Observer reported 3.24 of storm total rainfall. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hunter | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Hill | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Victor | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Tipton | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Glen Elder | 18.8 miles | 14 | |
| Cawker City | 19.3 miles | 15 | |
| Solomon Rapids | 19.8 miles | 12 | |
| Beloit | 21.7 miles | 13 | |
| Coursens Grove (historical) | 22.9 miles | 15 |
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 Hunter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2634126 | 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 472482. 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.




