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.
Population over time
2 figuresJamestown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 286 | |
| 2020 | 237 | -49 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1892 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Cloud County | 11 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 93 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F2) | Jamestown | $2,100,000 | A 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Jamestown | $175,000 | A 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $30,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a 40 foot by 80 foot shop building in Jamestown. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $10,000 | Concordia 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $4,000 | Strong winds knocked street lights off poles. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $2,000 | Strong winds blew off shed doors and damaged them. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Jamestown | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Jamestown | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Received pictures of a large tree snapped at the base of the trunk. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Report of power poles snapped. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Jamestown | - | Roadway closed due to water across the road approximately 8 miles west of Concordia. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Delayed report of downed trees along the thunderstorm outflow. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | There were numerous trees down in Jamestown. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Hail covering the ground. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Tree limbs down in Jamestown. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Dime size hail. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | A delayed report from social media of estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph with several large tree limbs down. |
| February 2012 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | A trained spotter near Jamestown reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | The public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Jamestown. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Jamestown | - | The hail measured 2.25 inches. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Golf ball size hail was reported by a spotter. |
| April 2008 | Tornado (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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Three to four inch diameter live tree limbs breaking as a result of the wind. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Several public reports of golfball size hail in the town of Jamestown. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Jamestown | - | 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Tree reported blown down. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Jamestown | - | A tornado touched down in rural areas near Jamestown and moved 2 miles before dissipating. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Jamestown | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near Jamestown. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Near softball size hail damaged crops near Jamestown. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Jamestown | - | Water was reported running over a roadway. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Jamestown | - | A tornado touched down briefly over open country near Jamestown. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | 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.
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 Jamestown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q676288 | 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 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.





