Kinsley, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kinsley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67547. The Survey maps it on the Kinsley quadrangle. 1,456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,172 feet above sea level.
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On record in Kinsley
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 3 records
Gano Grain Elevator and Scale Houselisted 1993
Kinsley Civil War Monumentlisted 2008
Palace Theaterlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresKinsley fell from 1,457 to 1,456 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 | 1,457 | |
| 2020 | 1,456 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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 Kinsley quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kinsley between 2017 and 2018, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 33 |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Edwards County | 18 |
| 8 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
| 15 January 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Edwards County | 7 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 109 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinsley in 109 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 68 hail, 29 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 5 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | $1,600,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kinsley | $500,000 | Hail smashed numerous building and vehicle windows. A hospital had to be evacuated when broken windows allowed heavy rain to flood the facilities. |
| March 2004 | Tornado (F3) | Kinsley | $480,000 | This tornado became very large and dusty. Several farms were hit with minor damage to other outbuildings across it's path. One farm sustained a direct hit. Five equipment buildings were destroyed and the house was knocked from it's foundation. Trees were mangled and debarked. A stock trailer was blown 3/4 of a mile from it's original location and an oil tank was rolled .3 of a mile. A stack of hay bales was demolished with the remnants piled 10 feet thick in a grove of trees. One large cedar tree was carried about a mile. As the tornado was dissipating, it crossed into Pawnee county at a location 12 miles north of Kinsley. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | $1,500 | Several power poles were blown down by the high wind. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Kinsley | - | There was intermittent ground circulation under the wall cloud. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Winds were estimated to be 75 MPH. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Kinsley | - | Rainfall of 4.50 inches was reported. Flooding was not observed. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Kinsley | - | This was a brief tornado with condensation to the ground for about 1 minute. |
| May 2010 | Heavy Rain | Kinsley | - | Rainfall of 2.25 fell during several rounds of thunderstorms during the day at a location 1 mile WSW of Kinsley. |
| July 2007 | Flood | Kinsley | - | Flooding due to heavy rain that fell overnight caused the evacuation of several homes. |
| March 2007 | Heavy Rain | Kinsley | - | Rainfall of 1.75 inches of rain was reported. |
| March 2007 | Heavy Rain | Kinsley | - | Rainfall of 1.60 inches fell. |
| March 2007 | Heavy Rain | Kinsley | - | Rainfall of 2.50 inches was reported. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Three inch diameter tree branches blown down. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | KSNW-TV weather lab at the Kinsley middle school. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Some tree damage was reported. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Two inch tree limbs broken. A semi-trailer was partially overturned. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| March 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Kinsley | - | Brief contact several times. Condensation was 1/2 to the ground. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Two to four inch diameter tree limbs were broken |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Kinsley | - | This was a brief tornado (not a gustnado). |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Power lines were blown down. A few trees were blown down across the road. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Four inch tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Five inch diameter limbs down. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Kinsley | - | Streets flooded. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Three inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Kinsley | - | Some crops stripped. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | Three inch tree limbs blown down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kinsley | - | Hail smashed numerous building and vehicle windows. A hospital had to be evacuated when broken windows allowed heavy rain to flood the facilities. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kinsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kinsley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardell | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Nettleton | 6.8 miles | 19 | |
| Hodges | 7.5 miles | 19 | |
| Offerle | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Williams (historical) | 8.4 miles | 18 | |
| Lewis | 8.4 miles | 19 | |
| Centerview | 10.6 miles | 18 | |
| Fellsburg | 14.6 miles | 18 |
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 Kinsley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232037 | 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 473545. 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.






