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Huron, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66041. The Survey maps it on the Denton quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Huron within Atchison County

Population over time

2 figures

Huron grew from 54 to 74 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
201054
202074+20 (+37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

11 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Huron between 2015 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
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
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018019
8 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
7 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015009
11 March 2015Smoking6.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015012
27 February 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2018005
25 February 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service2018012
18 February 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresBrown County2017007
18 February 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBrown County2017006

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huron in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHuron-Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2018HailHuron-no account filed
September 2007HailHuron-no account filed
April 2001HailHuron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Lancaster5.2 miles20
Good Intent7.6 miles27
Shannon7.6 miles27
Kennekuk7.8 miles20
Monrovia7.9 miles20
Effingham8.4 miles20
Farmington8.6 miles20
Muscotah10.8 miles18

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 HuronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901524The 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 473265. 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.