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.
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
- Judge James Hanway Houselisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresLane 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 225 | |
| 2020 | 241 | +16 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Lane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
60 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 62 |
| 1 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 61 |
| 23 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 169 |
| 1 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 127 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 59 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 20 |
| 17 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180022 |
| 12 April 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 123 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flood | Lane | $1,000,000 | Douglas 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Lane | $50,000 | Water covering 4300 block of Allen Terrace. Water completely covers the 600 block of Marshall road. It is impassable. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Lane | $30,000 | Fast flowing water crossing the road at Vermont and Douglas. Depth unknown. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Lane | $5,000 | Deputies 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lane | - | Wind gust of 60 mph and dime sized hail reported. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lane | - | Report of 15 to 20 power poles blown down north of Lane. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lane | - | Tree limbs and power lines down causing numerous outages. |
| February 2011 | Hail | Lane | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lane | - | Many 12 inch diamter limbs were downed. Trees were blown onto houses. Power lines are down. This was a delayed report. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lane | - | 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.
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 Lane | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2246563 | 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 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.








