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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.

Kechi within Sedgwick County

Population over time

2 figures

Kechi 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,909
20202,217+308 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

135 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51529
20 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service7135
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6028
31 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service6617
23 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service6432
1 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick County5447
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County5450
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service40887

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailKechi$5,000,000no account filed
July 2016Flash FloodKechi$100,000Significant 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 2016Thunderstorm WindKechi$40,000Multiple large trees were snapped and uprooted across town. A fireworks tent was also collapsed.
July 2016FloodKechi$100A citizen reported the exit ramp of westbound Highway 254 and Woodlawn was flooded.
July 2016FloodKechi$100Water was reported over roadways as 2.25 inches of rainfall fell.
April 2026Tornado (EFU)Kechi-Brief landspout tornado reported by a trained spotter and a retired NWS employee.
April 2024HailKechi-Ping pong ball to golf ball sized hail was ongoing for at least five minutes.
May 2020HailKechi-A report and picture of 2 inch diameter hail near Oliver and 109th Street in Valley Center.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKechi-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 2016HailKechi-Public report via Facebook.
April 2010HailKechi-Pea to slightly larger than nickel sized hail reported by KAKE television Meteorologist.
November 2024Thunderstorm WindKechi-no account filed
May 2022HailKechi-no account filed
May 2016HailKechi-no account filed
May 2012HailKechi-no account filed
September 2003HailKechi-no account filed
May 2002HailKechi-no account filed
June 1995HailKechi-no account filed
July 1995HailKechi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Arthur Heights2.0 miles19
Park City2.1 miles19
Bellaire2.4 miles19
Tolerville3.0 miles19
Wichita Heights3.2 miles19
Trails View4.0 miles19
Riverview4.0 miles19
Greenwich4.1 miles16

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 KechiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1703587The 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.