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Iuka, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 7. It lies in ZIP code area 67066. The Survey maps it on the Pratt quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.

Iuka within Pratt County

Population over time

2 figures

Iuka fell from 163 to 151 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
2010163
2020151-12 (-7%)

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

11 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Iuka between 2015 and 2020, burning about 104 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
8 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKansas Forest Service7
24 June 2020Natural5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018003
11 April 2017Debris and open burning35 acresPratt County13
10 April 2015Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service3
27 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPratt County2017004
28 February 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pratt County

Storms near this place

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iuka in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 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 2011Thunderstorm WindIuka$55,000A center pivot sprinkler was overturned by an estimated 80 MPH wind.
April 2026HailIuka-A public report of golf ball sized hail. 1 inch hail was reported in the same area a few minutes prior.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindIuka-Pratt County dispatch reported 75 mph winds.
May 2025Tornado (EFU)Iuka-A storm chaser captured a small satellite tornado off of the large Pratt tornado with pictures and video. No damage was reported or found.
July 2025Heavy RainIuka-A mesonet recorded 7.33 inches of around around the time period over a couple hours.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindIuka-A wind gust of 75 mph was reported.
May 2024Heavy RainIuka-Rainfall report of 1.13 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainIuka-Rainfall report of 2.10 inches.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindIuka-Roofs were blown off two buildings.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindIuka-Up to 12 inch diameter trees were reported to be blown down by the high wind at NW 10th and 70th Avenue.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIuka-Thunderstorms winds blew over a large pear tree.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIuka-Tree limbs 12 inches in diameter were blown over onto a fence and the fence was destroyed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIuka-The winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIuka-Dime sized hail also fell with the wind.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindIuka-The resident reported winds of 65 mph.
May 2007Heavy RainIuka-Roads were washed out in the area.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Iuka-This tornado did EF1 damage to trees and a pivot irrigation sprinkler before moving into Stafford county at 1601 CST.
August 2004Heavy RainIuka-Four inches of rain fell over night. A county road was washed out.
May 2024HailIuka-no account filed
May 2024HailIuka-no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindIuka-no account filed
May 2018HailIuka-no account filed
June 2017HailIuka-no account filed
July 2017HailIuka-no account filed
May 2015HailIuka-no account filed
May 2013HailIuka-no account filed
April 2013HailIuka-no account filed
April 2013HailIuka-no account filed
July 2011HailIuka-no account filed
June 2009HailIuka-no account filed
June 2008HailIuka-no account filed
May 2006HailIuka-no account filed
August 2006HailIuka-no account filed
May 2004HailIuka-no account filed
June 2004HailIuka-no account filed
May 2003HailIuka-no account filed
April 2002HailIuka-no account filed
June 2002HailIuka-no account filed
June 2000HailIuka-no account filed
July 2000HailIuka-no account filed
May 1999HailIuka-no account filed
August 1997HailIuka-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindIuka-no account filed
June 1996HailIuka-no account filed
May 1995HailIuka-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Iuka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pratt 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
Natrona3.9 miles14
Pratt5.9 miles14
Byers8.1 miles14
Waldeck8.4 miles14
Preston9.9 miles14
Cairo11.0 miles14
Cullison11.3 miles14
Hopewell14.8 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 IukaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q594148The 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 473934. 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.