Jennings, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jennings Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67643. The Survey maps it on the Jennings quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,510 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJennings fell from 96 to 81 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 | 96 | |
| 2020 | 81 | -15 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Jennings quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jennings: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muirhead Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
54 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jennings in 54 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 35 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Jennings | $40,000 | Several grain bins destroyed on the east side of town. Tree damage. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Jennings | - | Mping report of estimated nickel size hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Jennings | - | Firefighter reported half dollar sized hail. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Jennings | - | Trained spotter report of some nickel sized hail and heavy rain in Jennings. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Jennings | - | Most of the hail was nickel to half dollar size, only a few were golf ball. Lasted around 10 minutes. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Jennings | - | Brief period of dime to nickel sized hail a few miles east of Jennings. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Public estimated 50-60 mph winds. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Jennings | - | The public estimated nickel size hail. |
| June 2023 | Flood | Jennings | - | Public reported that flooding is ongoing in the town of Jennings. This includes Highway 383, town roads, and culverts in town. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Jennings | - | Pea to nickel sized hail observed. Hail fell on and off over a duration of 15 minutes. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Jennings | - | There were several rounds of hail through :50 after the hour. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Jennings | - | Pea to quarter sized hail observed. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | As an isolated storm moved south, winds estimated up to 70 mph occurred. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Kansas Department of Transportation mesonet station K5HJN observed gusts of 66 mph over a duration of five minutes. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Jennings | - | Multiple reports of hail in Jennings with a size range of quarters to golf balls. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Jennings | - | Accumulating hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported for a duration of five minutes. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Spotter reported estimated sustained winds of 40-50 mph with gusts 60-70 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Spotter estimated 60-70 mph wind gusts as the storm moved over the location. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Jennings | - | Local law enforcement reported street flooding just northeast of Jennings, KS. They also reported that this flooding could have contributed to a car accident at this location. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Jennings | - | Dispatch reported water over Highway 383 in the town of Jennings. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Jennings | - | The bridge north of Jennings was reported to be underwater the following morning due to heavy rainfall from the nighttime. No damage was reported. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Jennings | - | During the morning the bridge north of Jennings was reported to be underwater. Estimated the flooding to have receded close to the same time the flood waters in Norton and Graham county receded. No damage was reported. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Jennings | - | The hailstones started out as dime size, then increased to quarter size with hail covering the ground. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Jennings | - | Large hail fell for approximately three minutes. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Jennings | - | Heavy rainfall was also causing ditches to fill rapidly. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Jennings | - | This report was relayed via the NSSL SHAVE project. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Jennings | - | Major crop damage was reported from the hail, loss in dollars unknown. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Ten-inch tree branches down. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Jennings | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Jennings | - | Briefly touched down in open field. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | Thunderstorm Winds caused the top part of a farm shed to rip off and fall into a house about 100 yards away. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Jennings | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Jennings | - | 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 Jennings | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2246550 | 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 471077. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




