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.
Population over time
2 figuresLangdon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 39 | -3 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1892 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 667 acres | Reno County | LANGDON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $10,000 | TWO TREES BLOWN DOWN: ONE ON A HOME & ONE ON AN OUTBUILDING. OTHER TREES AND POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN RESULTED IN POWER OUTAGES. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $5,000 | Signs were blown over. Other unspecified damage was reported. Damage amounts are rough estimates. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Measured at a personal weather station. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be around 70 mph. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | This was a measured wind gust at Mesonet station UP423 located 2.8 miles west of Langdon. |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Two full grown Chinese elm trees were blown over and a power pole was also blown over. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | A large tree was uprooted and landed across a road. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | The measured gust was at Mesonet Station UP423, 2 WSW Langdon. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Langdon | - | This was a 24 hour report of 4.05 inches. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Relayed via Emergency Manager. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Langdon | - | The hail was ping pong to tennis ball-sized. No damage was reported. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Langdon | - | Most of the hail was one-half inch in diameter, with a few tennis ball size. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Estimated by Emergency management spotters. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | The high winds also included one inch hail. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | A one-quarter to one-half mile-wide swath of trees was downed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Eight-inch diameter tree limbs were downed. Pea size hail occurred with the wind. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Winds caused minor damage to tree branches. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Langdon | - | The tornado caused minor tree damage along its path. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Utility poles were downed on Langdon Road. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Langdon | - | Brief touchdown in the country. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Langdon | - | 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 Langdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2286501 | 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 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.





