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Lebo, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66856. The Survey maps it on the Lebo quadrangle. 885 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Lebo within Coffey County

On record in Lebo

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

Lebo fell from 940 to 885 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
2010940
2020885-55 (-6%)

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

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lebo between 2006 and 2020, burning about 659 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoffey County372
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service486
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service222
27 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCoffey County228
20 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service190
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service174
31 March 2015Smoking8.0 acresKansas Forest Service141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lebo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Davies QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this place

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebo in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 32 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2007Heavy RainLebo$50,000Three to three and a half inches of rain fell during the morning hours. This rain falling on saturated soils brought some small steam flooding along with street flooding in and around Lebo.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLebo$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLebo$500no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLebo$200no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLebo-Tree damage was also reported.
July 2023HailLebo-Golf ball sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLebo-Small tree limbs down.
May 2020HailLebo-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2020HailLebo-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2020HailLebo-Tennis ball size hail with time estimated based on radar.
May 2020HailLebo-Palm hail in Lebo.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLebo-Report of shed blown over and several tree limbs down. Time was estimated by radar.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLebo-Estimated wind gust report received via social media.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Lebo-Photos provided by KVOE radio shows small dust swirl on ground consistent with funnel cloud reports. No damage occurred.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLebo-Estimated wind gust report.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLebo-A roof was blown off of a house.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLebo-Downed tree limbs damaged a windshield on a car and a warehouse roof. The size of limbs were unknown.
May 2017HailLebo-Subway restaurant reported several quarter size stones.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLebo-Power lines down in Lebo. Numerous power outages in Burlington.
March 2011HailLebo-Vehicle accidents were reported along I-35 near Beto Junction.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLebo-A law enforcement officer reported 60 mph winds near the City of Lebo., with some small tree limb damage.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLebo-A lean-to garage was blown down and pieces were carried onto Old Highway 50.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLebo-Two grain bins were damaged near the intersection of Highway 50 and Emmer Road. One of these bins was blown across a roadway.
August 2019HailLebo-no account filed
May 2009HailLebo-no account filed
May 2009HailLebo-no account filed
May 2009HailLebo-no account filed
July 2008HailLebo-no account filed
June 2008HailLebo-no account filed
February 2007HailLebo-no account filed
June 2006HailLebo-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLebo-no account filed
June 2005HailLebo-no account filed
September 2005HailLebo-no account filed
September 2005HailLebo-no account filed
April 2003HailLebo-no account filed
April 2003HailLebo-no account filed
April 2003HailLebo-no account filed
April 2003HailLebo-no account filed
July 2003HailLebo-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLebo-no account filed
May 2001HailLebo-no account filed
May 2001HailLebo-no account filed
May 2001HailLebo-no account filed
September 2000HailLebo-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLebo-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLebo-no account filed
June 1998HailLebo-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudLebo-no account filed
May 1997HailLebo-no account filed
March 1996HailLebo-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLebo-no account filed
March 1996HailLebo-no account filed
March 1993HailLebo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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
Beto Junction8.6 miles18
Ottumwa10.0 miles16
Jacobs Creek Landing10.5 miles16
Halls Summit10.6 miles16
New Strawn12.2 miles16
Sharpe12.6 miles16
Waverly13.3 miles17
Burlington16.4 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 LeboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232004The 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 477548. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.