Kiowa, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kiowa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67070. The Survey maps it on the Kiowa quadrangle. 902 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKiowa fell from 1,026 to 902 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 | 1,026 | |
| 2020 | 902 | -124 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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 Anthony quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Anthony quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Kiowa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kiowa between 2000 and 2015, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 53010 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 53006 |
| 24 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 53002 |
| 11 February 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Concho Field Office | BURNS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiowa in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Kiowa | $10,000 | This tornado moved extremely slowly churning up red-plowed fields. One barn was destroyed. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | $5,000 | Ten to fifteen trees heavily damaged; part of the roof off a tin shed found 1/2 mile a way, along with 2 x 6's. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | $1,000 | Eight inch tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Kiowa | - | Highway 42 was closed with 2 feet of water across the highway. Rain gauge reports of rainfall ranged from 5 to 6 inches. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Kiowa | - | The size of the hail ranged from pea to penny. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH with a lot of tree limbs blown down. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Kiowa | - | Highway K2 was closed between Kiowa and Highway 281. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | Widespread wind damage from Hardtner to east of Kiowa. One tree was blown down in Kiowa and many limbs of 3 to 4 inches in diameter were blown down. Power was out for 12 hours. Twenty-five power poles were blown down and extensive wheat damage was done by the wind and hail. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | Widespread wind damage from Hardtner to east of Kiowa. Lots of tree limb damage reported and at least one tree blown over. 25 Power poles were blown down between Kiowa and Cherokee, OK. Extensive wheat damage reported. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | The high wind was also accompanied with a wall of dirt. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | One inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Kiowa | - | This was an anticyclonic spinup. |
| October 2003 | Flash Flood | Kiowa | - | Water of highway K2. Two cars were stranded. Another car wen around a barricade and fell into a drainage ditch. The driver had to be rescued. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Kiowa | - | Water was over highway K2. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | Two to three mile swath of hail. Some of the hail piled 4 feet deep at the corner of one fenced in area. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Kiowa | - | 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.
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 Kiowa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1023014 | 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 470540. 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.





