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Kirwin, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kirwin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67644. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirwin quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.

Kirwin within Phillips County

On record in Kirwin

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kirwin fell from 171 to 139 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
2010171
2020139-32 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kirwin between 1994 and 2018, burning about 714 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Debris and open burning3

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
15 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use65 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeDOGTOWN
29 August 2001Smokingunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeHUNHOLLOW
25 August 2000Naturalunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeCOWLEY
23 August 2012Naturalunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeSCOUT CAMP
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeKILN
3 July 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeGREY'S PARK
27 July 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeGRAY CAMP
2 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use73 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeYANKEE LANE

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirwin in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 19 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2017HailKirwin$150,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported. A portion of Highway 9 east of Glade was covered with 1-2 inches of hail.
July 2004HailKirwin$100,000no account filed
May 2012HailKirwin$75,000Hail ranging from golf ball to baseball size was reported.
June 2010Flash FloodKirwin$75,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindKirwin$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailKirwin$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailKirwin$2,000Hail reported at spillway on Kirwin Lake.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKirwin-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindKirwin-This wind gust was measured by the RAWS equipment located west of Kirwin.
August 1993HailKirwin-Hail damaged 1,000 acres of sorghum with a loss of potential yield of $25,000.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKirwin-no account filed
May 2018HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2016HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2014HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2012HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2011HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2011HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2010HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2010HailKirwin-no account filed
July 1999HailKirwin-no account filed
August 1997HailKirwin-no account filed
September 1995HailKirwin-no account filed
May 1994HailKirwin-no account filed
June 1994HailKirwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Agra6.1 miles13
Gretna8.0 miles13
Glade10.0 miles13
Phillipsburg12.1 miles13
Speed15.8 miles13
Stuttgart19.7 miles13
Logan23.8 miles13
Prairie View26.3 miles13

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 KirwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2576488The 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 472043. 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.