Kechi, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kechi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67067. The Survey maps it on the Valley Center quadrangle. 2,217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKechi grew from 1,909 to 2,217 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 | 1,909 | |
| 2020 | 2,217 | +308 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1889 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
135 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Kechi between 2015 and 2018, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 51529 |
| 20 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7135 |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6028 |
| 31 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6617 |
| 23 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6432 |
| 1 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 5447 |
| 1 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 5450 |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 40887 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kechi in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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 1993 | Hail | Kechi | $5,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Kechi | $100,000 | Significant flooding occurred in town. Multiple homes and barns were impacted including fields and water crossings. Rainfall amounts of 7 to 9 inches were reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kechi | $40,000 | Multiple large trees were snapped and uprooted across town. A fireworks tent was also collapsed. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Kechi | $100 | A citizen reported the exit ramp of westbound Highway 254 and Woodlawn was flooded. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Kechi | $100 | Water was reported over roadways as 2.25 inches of rainfall fell. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Kechi | - | Brief landspout tornado reported by a trained spotter and a retired NWS employee. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Kechi | - | Ping pong ball to golf ball sized hail was ongoing for at least five minutes. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Kechi | - | A report and picture of 2 inch diameter hail near Oliver and 109th Street in Valley Center. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kechi | - | A delayed report was received of tree limbs around 8 inches in diameter that had been blown down. The report was received via social media. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Kechi | - | Public report via Facebook. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Kechi | - | Pea to slightly larger than nickel sized hail reported by KAKE television Meteorologist. |
| November 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Kechi | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Kechi | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Heights | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Park City | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Bellaire | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Tolerville | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Wichita Heights | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Trails View | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Riverview | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Greenwich | 4.1 miles | 16 |
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 Kechi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1703587 | 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 473859. 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.









