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Jewell, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66949. It stands on Middle Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jewell quadrangle. 370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

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Jewell within Jewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Jewell fell from 432 to 370 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
2010432
2020370-62 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Jewell between 2005 and 2017, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 June 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeREC
13 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresJewell County6
10 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service5
20 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service3
13 November 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service15
15 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jewell in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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 2008Tornado (EF3)Jewell$5,000,000This tornado moved out of Mitchell County and into Jewell County about 4 miles west of Highway 14. As the tornado moved northeast and was southwest of the town of Jewell, it hit three farmsteads and severely damaged the homes and outbuildings at these locations. One of the homes was completely destroyed and other had a machine shed also destroyed. Trees and power poles and lines were also damaged along its path. The tornado entered the southwest side of community of Jewell and moved across the west side of town. Several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. The Jewell Caf and the Bourbon Trucking Company were destroyed. The towns water tower was also blown down by the tornado. The tornado lifted about two miles northeast of town. Luckily no injuries were reported.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindJewell$500,000Extremely strong thunderstorm winds caused major tree and structural damage across the area.
May 2023HailJewell$100,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported along this path.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindJewell$100,000no account filed
June 2005HailJewell$100,000no account filed
September 2015HailJewell$75,000Home windows were broken on the north side of Jewell.
July 2012HailJewell$75,000Hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2012HailJewell$75,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindJewell$50,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindJewell$50,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindJewell$50,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindJewell$50,000no account filed
May 2002HailJewell$30,000no account filed
April 2016HailJewell$25,000Hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size was reported along this path.
April 2016HailJewell$25,000Quarter to golf ball size hail occurred.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindJewell$25,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindJewell$15,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJewell$10,000Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindJewell$10,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindJewell$6,000Wind gusts estimated to be at least 75 MPH resulted in at least 8 power poles being snapped and a tree with a diameter of 18 to 24 inches snapped at its base.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindJewell$3,000Wind gusts estimated near 60 mph knocked down small tree limbs.
September 2009HailJewell$2,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindJewell$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in Jewell.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located near Jewell.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west-northwest of Jewell.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a Kansas State Mesonet station located three miles west-northwest of Jewell.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Jewell.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Jewell.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located near Jewell.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a Kansas Mesonet site located 3 miles west-northwest of Jewell.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles west-northwest of Jewell.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindJewell-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Jewell.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindJewell-A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles west-northwest of Jewell.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindJewell-This report came from an automated Kansas Mesonet site at 10 meters off of the ground.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindJewell-This wind gust was measured by a Kansas State University mesonet site 3 miles west-northwest of Jewell.
June 2013Heavy RainJewell-A 24 hour rain total of 4.90 inches fell 4 miles southwest of Jewell. Most of the rain occurred between 10 pm and Midnight CDT on June 16th. This report is from an unofficial rain gauge.
September 2012HailJewell-Pea to nickel size hail covered the yard.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJewell-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJewell-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJewell-Tree limbs of 3 to 4 inches in diameter knocked down.
March 2009HailJewell-Accompanied by winds estimated at 50 mph.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Jewell-Brief Touchdown
May 2019HailJewell-no account filed
September 2019HailJewell-no account filed
April 2016HailJewell-no account filed
April 2016HailJewell-no account filed
April 2016HailJewell-no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindJewell-no account filed
May 2012HailJewell-no account filed
June 2012HailJewell-no account filed
April 2010HailJewell-no account filed
June 2010HailJewell-no account filed
June 2008HailJewell-no account filed
June 2006HailJewell-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindJewell-no account filed
April 2005Funnel CloudJewell-no account filed
August 2004HailJewell-no account filed
May 2003HailJewell-no account filed
April 2002HailJewell-no account filed
May 2002HailJewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Randall6.1 miles13
Mankato8.5 miles13
Montrose8.5 miles13
Ionia10.3 miles13
Formoso11.4 miles13
Otego14.9 miles13
Burr Oak15.6 miles13
Lovewell16.2 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 JewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q593818The 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 472104. 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.