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Kanopolis, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellsworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67454. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellsworth quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,585 feet above sea level.

Kanopolis within Ellsworth County

On record in Kanopolis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kanopolis fell from 492 to 443 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
2010492
2020443-49 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kanopolis between 2015 and 2020, burning about 137 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service78
12 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service74
8 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKansas Forest Service23
25 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service38
23 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEllsworth County2017009
22 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEllsworth County2017008
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service37
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellsworth County

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 Kanopolis: 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
Bates Sand Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ellsworth County

Storms near this place

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanopolis in 66 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 48 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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
June 2008HailKanopolis$170,000Two inch hail blasted the sides of houses across Kanopolis. The north side of the Community Centers siding was blasted by the hail. Skylights and windows were also broken across town.
June 2008HailKanopolis$7,000Golfball sized hail broke windows, damaged a car and other property at a homestead. The large hail lasted for 5 minutes.
June 2019HailKanopolis$5,000The hail covered the ground with numerous reports of broken glass.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKanopolis$5,000The winds gusted to 50 to 60 mph. Some small tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKanopolis$500One to 1.5 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
October 2018FloodKanopolis$100Water was reported over highway 140 east of Ellsworth.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Reported a semi blown over at Mile Marker 222 on I-70 from thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Public reported via social media of a home with part of the roof blown off five miles northeast of Ellsworth KS. Tree limbs were reported down in Ellsworth KS. Time was estimated by radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 70 mph with 0.85 inches of rain in 15 minutes.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Measured wind gust from a trained spotter.
April 2023HailKanopolis-The ground was about 50 percent covered with hail.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-According to a report via social media, sections of an outbuilding roof were blown off.
August 2023Heavy RainKanopolis-Rain fall total 24 hours of 1. 42 inches.
July 2022Heavy RainKanopolis-A cocorahs observer in Kanopolis reported 3.90 inches in 24 hours.
May 2021HailKanopolis-Also reported 1.3 inches of rain and 40 mph winds.
June 2019HailKanopolis-No damage was reported.
May 2018HailKanopolis-There were no reports of damage.
May 2018HailKanopolis-There were no reports of damage.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-A machine shed was damaged with the roof taken completely off and two walls also collapsed.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Pea to half inch sized hail was also reported.
July 2013HailKanopolis-The spotter's yard was covered with ping-pong to golfball-sized hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter.
April 2005HailKanopolis-CO-OP observer.
April 2026HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2025HailKanopolis-no account filed
September 2022HailKanopolis-no account filed
August 2021HailKanopolis-no account filed
August 2021HailKanopolis-no account filed
August 2021HailKanopolis-no account filed
August 2021HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2019HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2019HailKanopolis-no account filed
June 2019HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2017HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2016HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2013HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2012HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2011HailKanopolis-no account filed
April 2011HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2011HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2011HailKanopolis-no account filed
June 2008HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2007HailKanopolis-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-no account filed
March 2006HailKanopolis-no account filed
June 2006HailKanopolis-no account filed
June 2006HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2006HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-no account filed
March 2005HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2003HailKanopolis-no account filed
March 2002HailKanopolis-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKanopolis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellsworth 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
Ellsworth4.0 miles14
Carneiro7.0 miles14
Midway7.0 miles15
Yankee Run8.5 miles14
Venango10.3 miles18
Terra Cotta10.8 miles18
Black Wolf11.3 miles14
Frantz (historical)11.8 miles15

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 KanopolisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1909273The 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 475464. 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.

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.