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La Harpe, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66751. The Survey maps it on the La Harpe quadrangle. 480 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

La Harpe within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

La Harpe fell from 578 to 480 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
2010578
2020480-98 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

29 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of La Harpe between 2015 and 2018, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County215
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service145
18 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County180
11 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAllen County94
10 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest ServiceMF18-20
4 March 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresKansas Forest Service9
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service77
22 March 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service75

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Harpe in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe$12,000All of the walls of a garage were blown down causing considerable damage.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe$10,000Winds estimated from 60-70 mph downed trees and power lines, causing power outages.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe-A tree was reported down in the town of La Harpe.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe-A Coop observer reported a tree had fallen on a house in La Harpe.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe-Several trees and power poles were blown down.
May 2008FloodLa Harpe-Heavy rain caused minor flooding of rural roads in the La Harpe area.
May 2025HailLa Harpe-no account filed
May 2013HailLa Harpe-no account filed
May 2009HailLa Harpe-no account filed
May 2008HailLa Harpe-no account filed
March 2006HailLa Harpe-no account filed
August 2003HailLa Harpe-no account filed
June 1998HailLa Harpe-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindLa Harpe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Gas2.5 miles18
Iola5.4 miles18
Bassett5.7 miles18
Moran6.8 miles17
Carlyle7.2 miles18
Bayard8.9 miles17
Mildred10.0 miles17
Humboldt10.4 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 La HarpeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1938119The 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 474511. 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.