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Jamestown, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66948. It stands on Little Cheyenne Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Jamestown within Cloud County

Population over time

2 figures

Jamestown fell from 286 to 237 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
2010286
2020237-49 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Jamestown between 2017 and 2018, burning about 61 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
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCloud County11
5 April 2018Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this place

60 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 93 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 54 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 3 funnel cloud. 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 2004Tornado (F2)Jamestown$2,100,000A tornado touched down 4 miles westnorthwest of Jamestown and moved eastnorteast before dissipating 3 miles northnorthwest of Jamestown. Large trees and power poles were downed. A number of farms along the route had significant damage.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Jamestown$175,000A tornado touched down in rural areas near Jamestown. The tornado destroyed one house and heavily damaged three others along its 4 mile path. Two sheds were flattened, one of which fell onto two pickup trucks destroying both vehicles. Many power lines were downed. Some irrigation units were toppled.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindJamestown$30,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a 40 foot by 80 foot shop building in Jamestown.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJamestown$10,000Concordia ASOS reported a 75 mph wind gust. Also multiple large trees uprooted onto streets making them impassible. One tree fell on a house causing damage. Power lines also fell and pulled meters out from houses. In Jamestown a 3 foot diameter hackberry tree blew onto a house.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJamestown$4,000Strong winds knocked street lights off poles.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindJamestown$2,000Strong winds blew off shed doors and damaged them.
June 1994HailJamestown$500no account filed
June 1994HailJamestown$500no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Received pictures of a large tree snapped at the base of the trunk.
July 2023HailJamestown-Quarter sized hail reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Report of power poles snapped.
September 2018Flash FloodJamestown-Roadway closed due to water across the road approximately 8 miles west of Concordia.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Delayed report of downed trees along the thunderstorm outflow.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Estimated wind gust.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJamestown-There were numerous trees down in Jamestown.
April 2014HailJamestown-Hail covering the ground.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Tree limbs down in Jamestown.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Dime size hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindJamestown-A delayed report from social media of estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph with several large tree limbs down.
February 2012Tornado (EF0)Jamestown-The first batch of storms formed across central Kansas and as they moved to the northeast gathered strength. One of the storms produced a brief and weak tornado in far western Cloud County. No significant damage or injuries occurred from this tornado.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindJamestown-A trained spotter near Jamestown reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindJamestown-The public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Jamestown.
June 2010HailJamestown-The hail measured 2.25 inches.
June 2009HailJamestown-Golf ball size hail was reported by a spotter.
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Jamestown-The tornado crossed into Cloud County and caused damage across mainly rural areas. Several power poles were snapped off, an abandonded home was damaged, and several out-buildings were damaged.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Three to four inch diameter live tree limbs breaking as a result of the wind.
June 2008HailJamestown-Several public reports of golfball size hail in the town of Jamestown.
June 2008HailJamestown-Hail fell for nearly an hour. For the most part, stones were small, but the largest were baseball size. Time notes when the baseball size hail fell.
June 2008Flash FloodJamestown-Water flowing over Highway 28 west of Jamestown, several back roads, and across the roadway four miles north of town. South of Jamestown, a trained spotter reported that three inches of rain fell through the duration of the storm. A spotter in Jamestown measured four inches of rain. Creeks had spilled out of their banks, and were flowing over roadways. Several retention ponds were also full and spilling out of their banks.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Tree reported blown down.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Jamestown-A tornado touched down in rural areas near Jamestown and moved 2 miles before dissipating.
May 2004Funnel CloudJamestown-A funnel cloud was sighted near Jamestown.
May 2004HailJamestown-Near softball size hail damaged crops near Jamestown.
July 2004Flash FloodJamestown-Water was reported running over a roadway.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Jamestown-A tornado touched down briefly over open country near Jamestown.
April 2025HailJamestown-no account filed
May 2019HailJamestown-no account filed
April 2017HailJamestown-no account filed
April 2013HailJamestown-no account filed
September 2010HailJamestown-no account filed
September 2010HailJamestown-no account filed
September 2010HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008HailJamestown-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJamestown-no account filed
August 2007HailJamestown-no account filed
May 2006HailJamestown-no account filed
September 2006HailJamestown-no account filed
April 2005HailJamestown-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindJamestown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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
Oneonta (historical)3.7 miles13
Yuma5.9 miles14
Macyville8.5 miles16
Concordia10.7 miles14
Rosaco12.4 miles14
Cook13.7 miles13
Huscher15.3 miles13
Rice16.3 miles13

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 JamestownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q676288The 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 473308. 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.