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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.

Isabel within Barber County

Population over time

2 figures

Isabel 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.

YearPeople Change
201090
202068-22 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

1 since 2020

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Barber County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Thunderstorm WindIsabel$100,000Microburst 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 2002Thunderstorm WindIsabel$1,000A house lost some trim due to high winds.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Isabel-This tornado moved into Pratt County at 1515 CST.
April 2015HailIsabel-There was also 60 MPH winds estimated at this location.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindIsabel-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 MPH. A top of a well house was blown off. There was also dime sized hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindIsabel-A pole shed was damaged by the high wind.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindIsabel-A hog shed was blown over by the high wind.
May 2005HailIsabel-Porch window was broken by this PENNY sized hail!
May 2014HailIsabel-no account filed
March 2009HailIsabel-no account filed
March 2009HailIsabel-no account filed
July 2008HailIsabel-no account filed
June 2007HailIsabel-no account filed
June 2004HailIsabel-no account filed
June 2004HailIsabel-no account filed
March 2001HailIsabel-no account filed
October 1998HailIsabel-no account filed
June 1997HailIsabel-no account filed
May 1996HailIsabel-no account filed
June 1996HailIsabel-no account filed
July 1995HailIsabel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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
Elm Mills7.6 miles14
Mingona12.3 miles14
Medicine Lodge12.9 miles14
Forest City13.8 miles14
Pixley14.9 miles14
Lake City16.3 miles14
Sharon16.5 miles15
Sun City20.3 miles14

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 IsabelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2084965The 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.