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Johnson, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Stanton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67855. The Survey maps it on the Johnson West quadrangle. 1,464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,432 feet above sea level.

Johnson within Stanton County

Population over time

2 figures

Johnson fell from 1,495 to 1,464 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
20101,495
20201,464-31 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Johnson between 2016 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
18 July 2020Natural2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
26 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service3
15 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2
14 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1

Every fire recorded in Stanton County

Storms near this place

60 of 238 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnson in 238 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 135 hail, 78 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 5 tornado. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindJohnson$50,000Pivot irrigation sprinkler overturned.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindJohnson$4,000Power lines blown down
March 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-AWOS station KJHN Johnson City recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2025HailJohnson-A storm chaser reported 1.5 inch hail via social media in Johnson City. Another public report via social of 1 inch hail occurred a few minutes later also in Johnson City.
June 2025HailJohnson-The emergency manager reported 3 inch hail at location 2 (outside of Manter) and 1 inch hail a couple minutes prior at location 1.
June 2025HailJohnson-Pictures of golf ball sized hail via social media.
June 2025HailJohnson-Pictures of 2 inch measured hail via social media.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Johnson-Off-duty NWS employee reported a tornado with a photo. Shortly after, multiple storm chasers corroborated the report with more reports and pictures of the tornado. It was a very brief tornado with no damage.
August 2025HailJohnson-The emergency manager reported 1 inch hail.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-The emergency manager reported a 68 mph wind gust.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-AWOS station KJHN Johnson City reported a 61 mph wind gust.
August 2025Flash FloodJohnson-The emergency manager reported street flooding and flooding of low lying areas in Johnson City and rural areas just outside of town due to multiple rounds of heavy rain.
June 2025Flash FloodJohnson-Emergency Manager reported water covering the roads in the low lying areas between Johnson and Manter. Again confirmed the continuing report 25 minutes later.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Measured by the AWOS station at Johnson City.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Measured by the AWOS station at Johnson City.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Measured by the AWOS at Airport.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnson-The KJHN reported wind gust 94 mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Three inch tree limbs broken.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Three inch diameter branches down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Measured at Johnson City Airport.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJohnson-One inch tree limbs broken.
July 2021Flash FloodJohnson-Severe street flooding was reported.
May 2020Tornado (EF0)Johnson-This was a brief landspout tornado.
August 2020HailJohnson-The hail ranged from pea to ping ball sized.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
May 2019Funnel CloudJohnson-A small funnel was observed underneath a shower.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindJohnson-There were multiple reports of 60 MPH winds.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH and there was dime sized hail falling while the high wind occurred.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be at least 80 MPH.
July 2018FloodJohnson-Several rural roads were flooded.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2017Heavy RainJohnson-Rainfall was 2.52 inches.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Twenty power poles were blown down by the high wind.
July 2017Flash FloodJohnson-Water was over the pavement near Road 12 and Old Highway 160.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2015Flash FloodJohnson-Heavy rain caused a local area of flash flooding across several county roads and also across Highway 27.
July 2015Flash FloodJohnson-Highway 27 was closed due to flooding across the road. City streets were also flooded.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Power poles were blown down by the high wind. There was also damage to houses from hail and wind.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Winds were estimated to be at least 70 MPH.
September 2015FloodJohnson-Water 4 to 5 inches deep was flowing across Highway 27.
September 2015HailJohnson-Hail accumulated to a depth of more than 4 inches. Also, three inches of rain fell resulting in local flooding.
September 2015Heavy RainJohnson-Rainfall of 3 inches fell during the period resulting in minor local flooding.
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Johnson-A weak landspout lasted about 5 minutes but did not cause any damage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Numerous power poles were blown down by the high wind in the Johnson City area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJohnson-An unspecified number of power poles were blown down.
April 2009HailJohnson-The hail covered the ground.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindJohnson-The wind was estimated.
November 2008Tornado (EF0)Johnson-The tornado passed just west of the landfill and winds were estimated to be 70 mph at the landfill. Hail covered the ground during the event.
November 2008HailJohnson-The hail ranged from pea to quarter sized.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindJohnson-The wind was measured at a KSNW weather lab site.
August 2008Heavy RainJohnson-Rainfall of 2.40 was measured.
February 2007FloodJohnson-Snow melt produced widespread flooding, especially near and west of Johnson. Many roads were covered with water and many county roads were destroyed by the flooding.
March 2007FloodJohnson-A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused flooding in the county. A few roads were washed out or heavily damaged.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindJohnson-The wind gust was reported at the KSN weather lab.
July 2007Heavy RainJohnson-Two and one half inches of rain fell overnight.
July 2007Heavy RainJohnson-Rainfall of 2.40 inches was reported.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindJohnson-Measured at the KSNW-TV weather lab at the Johnson middle school.

Every storm recorded in Stanton 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
Julian6.6 miles16
Manter7.8 miles14
Big Bow10.0 miles14
Saunders16.8 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 JohnsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232350The 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 471702. 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.