Isabel, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67065. The Survey maps it on the Isabel quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,847 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIsabel fell from 90 to 68 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 | 90 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -22 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Isabel quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Isabel in 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Isabel in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isabel | $100,000 | Microburst caused extensive damage to the Lake Arrowhead resort area. Several boat docks were destroyed. Part of a roof was taken off a cabin/house. A Garage under construction was completely destroyed. Damage was about 3 miles wide long starting near the resort and extending south and southwest. The length of the damage area was unknown due to range land extending beyond the resort. There were also six, very large-mature cottonwood trees uprooted with heavy damage to the remainder of the trees in the area. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isabel | $1,000 | A house lost some trim due to high winds. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Isabel | - | This tornado moved into Pratt County at 1515 CST. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Isabel | - | There was also 60 MPH winds estimated at this location. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isabel | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 MPH. A top of a well house was blown off. There was also dime sized hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isabel | - | A pole shed was damaged by the high wind. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isabel | - | A hog shed was blown over by the high wind. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Isabel | - | Porch window was broken by this PENNY sized hail! |
| May 2014 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Isabel | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Isabel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elm Mills | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mingona | 12.3 miles | 14 | |
| Medicine Lodge | 12.9 miles | 14 | |
| Forest City | 13.8 miles | 14 | |
| Pixley | 14.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lake City | 16.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sharon | 16.5 miles | 15 | |
| Sun City | 20.3 miles | 14 |
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 Isabel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2084965 | 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 470377. 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.





