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Lake City, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67071. It stands on Puckett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake City quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Lake City within Barber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 20 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
September 2009FloodLake City$10,000A local road was closes for a while due to flooding from the Medicine River.
June 2024Heavy RainLake City-Rainfall report of 2.65 inches.
June 2024Heavy RainLake City-Rainfall report of 2.61 inches.
July 2018HailLake City-Winds were also estimated to be 50 MPH.
April 2015HailLake City-Most of the hail was the size of dimes.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Lake City-This was a brief and weak tornado.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLake City-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH and toppled a tv antenna.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLake City-Pea sized hail fell with the wind.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLake City-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLake City-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2010HailLake City-There was also 0.50 of rain in 22 minutes.
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Lake City-This tornado produced EF2 damage to trees and turned sharply northwest as it dissipated.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLake City-A Fire fighter reported that the roof was blown off his house. Several windows and house siding was damage by wind-driven hail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLake City-A 1/2 inch diameter metal Shepard's hook was bent over to the ground.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindLake City-Large tree was blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLake City-Wind equipment was pegged at 52 knots for 20 minutes. This was as high as it would measure.
July 2023HailLake City-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLake City-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLake City-no account filed
July 2018HailLake City-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLake City-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLake City-no account filed
April 2012HailLake City-no account filed
June 2008HailLake City-no account filed
May 2005HailLake City-no account filed
May 2002HailLake City-no account filed
May 2002HailLake City-no account filed
June 2001HailLake City-no account filed
February 2000HailLake City-no account filed
March 2000HailLake City-no account filed
May 1999HailLake City-no account filed
June 1997HailLake City-no account filed
April 1996HailLake City-no account filed
September 1996HailLake City-no account filed
September 1996HailLake City-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLake City-no account filed
July 1995HailLake City-no account filed
May 1993HailLake City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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
Forest City5.2 miles14
Sun City5.3 miles14
Mingona7.2 miles14
Elm Mills9.0 miles14
Deerhead9.3 miles14
Medicine Lodge13.7 miles14
Isabel16.3 miles14
Pixley17.7 miles14

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 Lake CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475348The 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 470431. 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.

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.