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Lehigh, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lehigh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67073. The Survey maps it on the Lehigh quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Lehigh within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Lehigh fell from 175 to 161 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
2010175
2020161-14 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lehigh between 2015 and 2020, burning about 572 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarion County81
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMarion County70
5 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service85
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service62
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0011
11 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lehigh in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10,000The emergency manager reported a barn had collapsed. Additionally a tree fell onto a house creating a hole in the roof.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10,000Four power poles were downed along Highway 56.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Report of a tree through a roof.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Nineteen empty train cars were derailed from thunderstorm wind gusts. Estimated winds in the area were around 70 mph. Meanwhile, a nearby mesonet observation recorded a 62 mph at around the same time.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Evergy reported 13 power poles were down on U.S. Highway 56 west of Falcon Road. This was relayed via the emergency manager.
April 2022Tornado (EF0)Lehigh-A brief tornado damaged hardwood tree branches of one to three inches in diameter.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Nickel size hail was also reported.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLehigh-A large branch was downed.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Lehigh-Occurred in open country.
April 2026HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2026HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2019HailLehigh-no account filed
June 2011HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2008HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2007HailLehigh-no account filed
June 2004HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2003HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2002HailLehigh-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLehigh-no account filed
May 2000HailLehigh-no account filed
May 1999HailLehigh-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLehigh-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindLehigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Waldeck4.3 miles15
Hillsboro5.4 miles15
Durham8.8 miles15
Goessel9.1 miles15
Canada10.2 miles15
Eastshore12.2 miles15
Aulne13.7 miles15
Tampa14.4 miles18

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 LehighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1816218The 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 477226. 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.