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Langdon, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Langdon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67583. The Survey maps it on the Langdon quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,693 feet above sea level.

Langdon within Reno County

Population over time

2 figures

Langdon fell from 42 to 39 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
201042
202039-3 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Langdon in 2018, burning about 667 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined667 acresReno CountyLANGDON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langdon in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLangdon$10,000TWO TREES BLOWN DOWN: ONE ON A HOME & ONE ON AN OUTBUILDING. OTHER TREES AND POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN RESULTED IN POWER OUTAGES.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLangdon$5,000Signs were blown over. Other unspecified damage was reported. Damage amounts are rough estimates.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Measured at a personal weather station.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Wind gusts were estimated to be around 70 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLangdon-This was a measured wind gust at Mesonet station UP423 located 2.8 miles west of Langdon.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Two full grown Chinese elm trees were blown over and a power pole was also blown over.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLangdon-A large tree was uprooted and landed across a road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The measured gust was at Mesonet Station UP423, 2 WSW Langdon.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLangdon-No damage was reported.
July 2018Heavy RainLangdon-This was a 24 hour report of 4.05 inches.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Relayed via Emergency Manager.
July 2016HailLangdon-The hail was ping pong to tennis ball-sized. No damage was reported.
May 2009HailLangdon-Most of the hail was one-half inch in diameter, with a few tennis ball size.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Estimated by Emergency management spotters.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The high winds also included one inch hail.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLangdon-A one-quarter to one-half mile-wide swath of trees was downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Eight-inch diameter tree limbs were downed. Pea size hail occurred with the wind.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Winds caused minor damage to tree branches.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Langdon-The tornado caused minor tree damage along its path.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Utility poles were downed on Langdon Road.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Langdon-Brief touchdown in the country.
May 2018HailLangdon-no account filed
May 2017HailLangdon-no account filed
May 2016HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2015HailLangdon-no account filed
April 2015HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2015HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2015HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2015HailLangdon-no account filed
June 2013HailLangdon-no account filed
May 2012HailLangdon-no account filed
June 2011HailLangdon-no account filed
May 2011HailLangdon-no account filed
June 2009HailLangdon-no account filed
October 2004HailLangdon-no account filed
March 2002HailLangdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Lerado5.8 miles13
Turon6.3 miles13
Plevna8.2 miles13
Arlington8.3 miles13
Sylvia8.4 miles13
Abbyville10.3 miles13
Huntsville14.0 miles15
Partridge14.6 miles13

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 LangdonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2286501The 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 473778. 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.