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.
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
Hoff School District No. 42listed 2011
Kirwin City Halllisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresKirwin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 139 | -32 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1893 USGS Phillipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1972 USGS Kirwin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 1994Regional 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 ceremony | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 65 acres | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | DOGTOWN |
| 29 August 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | HUNHOLLOW |
| 25 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | COWLEY |
| 23 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | SCOUT CAMP |
| 21 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | KILN |
| 3 July 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | GREY'S PARK |
| 27 July 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | GRAY CAMP |
| 2 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 73 acres | Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge | YANKEE LANE |
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2017 | Hail | Kirwin | $150,000 | Hail 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 2004 | Hail | Kirwin | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kirwin | $75,000 | Hail ranging from golf ball to baseball size was reported. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Kirwin | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirwin | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kirwin | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kirwin | $2,000 | Hail reported at spillway on Kirwin Lake. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirwin | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirwin | - | This wind gust was measured by the RAWS equipment located west of Kirwin. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Kirwin | - | Hail damaged 1,000 acres of sorghum with a loss of potential yield of $25,000. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Kirwin | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Kirwin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agra | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Gretna | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Glade | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Phillipsburg | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Speed | 15.8 miles | 13 | |
| Stuttgart | 19.7 miles | 13 | |
| Logan | 23.8 miles | 13 | |
| Prairie View | 26.3 miles | 13 |
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 Kirwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2576488 | 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 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.




