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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.

Hunter within Mitchell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hunter 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.

YearPeople Change
201057
202051-6 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2017

Regional 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
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2018Natural10 acresKansas Forest Service1
3 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMitchell County1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993Tornado (F0)Hunter$50,000The tornado moved in from Lincoln county and dissipated before hitting Tipton. (see Lincoln county entry for more details)
October 2017HailHunter$50,000no account filed
May 2013HailHunter$50,000no account filed
May 2018HailHunter$25,000no account filed
May 2016HailHunter$5,000no account filed
May 2016HailHunter$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailHunter$2,000no account filed
April 1994HailHunter$500no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHunter$500no account filed
April 2023HailHunter-Delayed report via CoCoRaHS, time estimated from radar.
May 2018HailHunter-Quarter size hail was accompanied by estimated 60 MPH wind gusts.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHunter-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and were accompanied by quarter size hail.
May 2018Heavy RainHunter-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.50 inches was measured.
October 2017Heavy RainHunter-The 24-hour rainfall was 3.20, the vast majority of which fell between 6-10 p.m. CDT.
May 2016Heavy RainHunter-Storm total rainfall was 3.77 inches.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHunter-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHunter-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph.
June 2011Heavy RainHunter-The Cooperative Observer reported 3.24 of storm total rainfall.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHunter-Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2021HailHunter-no account filed
May 2017HailHunter-no account filed
July 2017HailHunter-no account filed
June 2015HailHunter-no account filed
June 2013HailHunter-no account filed
June 2013HailHunter-no account filed
April 2012HailHunter-no account filed
June 2011HailHunter-no account filed
April 2005HailHunter-no account filed
April 2005HailHunter-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHunter-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodHunter-no account filed
April 2002HailHunter-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Hunter-no account filed
June 1999HailHunter-no account filed
June 1998HailHunter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Blue Hill5.3 miles12
Victor6.1 miles12
Tipton8.5 miles12
Glen Elder18.8 miles14
Cawker City19.3 miles15
Solomon Rapids19.8 miles12
Beloit21.7 miles13
Coursens Grove (historical)22.9 miles15

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 HunterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2634126The 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.