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Lane, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pottawatomie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66042. It stands on Little Sac Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lane quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Lane within Franklin County

On record in Lane

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lane grew from 225 to 241 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
2010225
2020241+16 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

60 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Lane between 2015 and 2020, burning about 485 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service62
1 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service61
23 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service169
1 May 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service127
4 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service59
23 April 2018Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service20
17 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service180022
12 April 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service123

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lane in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2007FloodLane$1,000,000Douglas road next to Pottawatomie creek flooded for 1/4 of a mile. Rain continues producing increasingly widespread flooding through the rest of the month. Record flooding occurs near Lane on Pottawatomie Creek and near Pomona on the Marais des Cygnes river. By late on the 30th, homes are flooded and the fire department is assisting with evacuations. Snakes were seen swimming for shelter and raccoons were trapped in trees. Flooding continues into July.
June 2007Flash FloodLane$50,000Water covering 4300 block of Allen Terrace. Water completely covers the 600 block of Marshall road. It is impassable.
June 2007Flash FloodLane$30,000Fast flowing water crossing the road at Vermont and Douglas. Depth unknown.
June 2007Flash FloodLane$5,000Deputies reported that water was flowing over the road near the intersection of Virginia Road and Hwy 169. Just over three inches of rain was reported to have fallen over the course of the event.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLane-Wind gust of 60 mph and dime sized hail reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLane-Report of 15 to 20 power poles blown down north of Lane.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLane-Tree limbs and power lines down causing numerous outages.
February 2011HailLane-A COOP Observer measured 1.875 inch hail approximately 2 hours after the hail fell. Damage to cars and home roofs were also noted.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLane-Many 12 inch diamter limbs were downed. Trees were blown onto houses. Power lines are down. This was a delayed report.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLane-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Rantoul7.6 miles17
Richmond9.4 miles17
Imes10.1 miles17
Peoria10.6 miles17
Princeton10.8 miles17
B N Junction13.1 miles19
Ottawa15.6 miles19
Homewood16.6 miles17

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 LaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2246563The 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 477598. 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.