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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.

Jennings within Decatur County

Population over time

2 figures

Jennings 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.

YearPeople Change
201096
202081-15 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Muirhead Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

54 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Jennings$40,000Several grain bins destroyed on the east side of town. Tree damage.
June 2025HailJennings-Mping report of estimated nickel size hail.
June 2025HailJennings-Firefighter reported half dollar sized hail.
September 2025HailJennings-Trained spotter report of some nickel sized hail and heavy rain in Jennings.
September 2025HailJennings-Most of the hail was nickel to half dollar size, only a few were golf ball. Lasted around 10 minutes.
May 2024HailJennings-Brief period of dime to nickel sized hail a few miles east of Jennings.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindJennings-Public estimated 50-60 mph winds.
July 2024HailJennings-The public estimated nickel size hail.
June 2023FloodJennings-Public reported that flooding is ongoing in the town of Jennings. This includes Highway 383, town roads, and culverts in town.
September 2023HailJennings-Pea to nickel sized hail observed. Hail fell on and off over a duration of 15 minutes.
August 2023HailJennings-There were several rounds of hail through :50 after the hour.
May 2022HailJennings-Pea to quarter sized hail observed.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindJennings-As an isolated storm moved south, winds estimated up to 70 mph occurred.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindJennings-Kansas Department of Transportation mesonet station K5HJN observed gusts of 66 mph over a duration of five minutes.
June 2022HailJennings-Multiple reports of hail in Jennings with a size range of quarters to golf balls.
June 2022HailJennings-Accumulating hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported for a duration of five minutes.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJennings-Spotter reported estimated sustained winds of 40-50 mph with gusts 60-70 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJennings-Spotter estimated 60-70 mph wind gusts as the storm moved over the location.
August 2019Flash FloodJennings-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 2019Flash FloodJennings-Dispatch reported water over Highway 383 in the town of Jennings.
September 2016Flash FloodJennings-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 2016FloodJennings-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 2016HailJennings-The hailstones started out as dime size, then increased to quarter size with hail covering the ground.
June 2011HailJennings-Large hail fell for approximately three minutes.
June 2010HailJennings-Heavy rainfall was also causing ditches to fill rapidly.
June 2007HailJennings-This report was relayed via the NSSL SHAVE project.
June 2006HailJennings-Major crop damage was reported from the hail, loss in dollars unknown.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindJennings-Ten-inch tree branches down.
July 2005HailJennings-Quarter size hail covered the ground.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Jennings-Briefly touched down in open field.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindJennings-Thunderstorm Winds caused the top part of a farm shed to rip off and fall into a house about 100 yards away.
June 2024HailJennings-no account filed
May 2018HailJennings-no account filed
June 2016HailJennings-no account filed
May 2013HailJennings-no account filed
July 2013HailJennings-no account filed
July 2013HailJennings-no account filed
May 2007HailJennings-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
August 2006HailJennings-no account filed
August 2006HailJennings-no account filed
August 2005HailJennings-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
May 2004HailJennings-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
June 2002HailJennings-no account filed
May 2001HailJennings-no account filed
May 2001HailJennings-no account filed
May 1999HailJennings-no account filed
June 1997HailJennings-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Jennings-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
May 1996HailJennings-no account filed
August 1996HailJennings-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Allison7.4 miles7
Dresden7.8 miles7
Kanona9.6 miles9
Leoville11.2 miles7
Norcatur12.2 miles9
Oberlin15.7 miles9
Lyle19.6 miles9
Cedar Bluffs25.1 miles9

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 JenningsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2246550The 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.