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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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Kinsley within Edwards County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kinsley 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,457
20201,456-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

5 since 2017

Regional 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service33
28 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreEdwards County18
8 January 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1
15 January 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEdwards County7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edwards County

Storms near this place

60 of 109 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindKinsley$1,600,000no account filed
May 1995HailKinsley$500,000Hail smashed numerous building and vehicle windows. A hospital had to be evacuated when broken windows allowed heavy rain to flood the facilities.
March 2004Tornado (F3)Kinsley$480,000This 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 1994Thunderstorm WindKinsley$5,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindKinsley$1,500Several power poles were blown down by the high wind.
June 2019Tornado (EF0)Kinsley-There was intermittent ground circulation under the wall cloud.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Winds were estimated to be 75 MPH.
August 2013Heavy RainKinsley-Rainfall of 4.50 inches was reported. Flooding was not observed.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Kinsley-This was a brief tornado with condensation to the ground for about 1 minute.
May 2010Heavy RainKinsley-Rainfall of 2.25 fell during several rounds of thunderstorms during the day at a location 1 mile WSW of Kinsley.
July 2007FloodKinsley-Flooding due to heavy rain that fell overnight caused the evacuation of several homes.
March 2007Heavy RainKinsley-Rainfall of 1.75 inches of rain was reported.
March 2007Heavy RainKinsley-Rainfall of 1.60 inches fell.
March 2007Heavy RainKinsley-Rainfall of 2.50 inches was reported.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Three inch diameter tree branches blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsley-KSNW-TV weather lab at the Kinsley middle school.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Some tree damage was reported.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Two inch tree limbs broken. A semi-trailer was partially overturned.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
March 2004Tornado (F0)Kinsley-Brief contact several times. Condensation was 1/2 to the ground.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Two to four inch diameter tree limbs were broken
May 2002Tornado (F0)Kinsley-This was a brief tornado (not a gustnado).
June 2002Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Power lines were blown down. A few trees were blown down across the road.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Four inch tree limbs were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Five inch diameter limbs down.
June 2000Flash FloodKinsley-Streets flooded.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 1998HailKinsley-Some crops stripped.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindKinsley-Three inch tree limbs blown down.
May 1995HailKinsley-Hail smashed numerous building and vehicle windows. A hospital had to be evacuated when broken windows allowed heavy rain to flood the facilities.
June 2019HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2019HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2019HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2009HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2008HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2008HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKinsley-no account filed
May 2007HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2007HailKinsley-no account filed
April 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
April 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
May 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsley-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsley-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsley-no account filed
September 2006HailKinsley-no account filed
July 2005HailKinsley-no account filed
July 2005HailKinsley-no account filed
July 2005HailKinsley-no account filed
July 2005HailKinsley-no account filed
October 2005HailKinsley-no account filed
March 2004HailKinsley-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindKinsley-no account filed
June 2004HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2004HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2004HailKinsley-no account filed
June 2004HailKinsley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edwards 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
Ardell4.8 miles18
Nettleton6.8 miles19
Hodges7.5 miles19
Offerle8.2 miles13
Williams (historical)8.4 miles18
Lewis8.4 miles19
Centerview10.6 miles18
Fellsburg14.6 miles18

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 KinsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232037The 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.