Lenora, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland-District 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67645. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lenora West quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,267 feet above sea level.
On record in Lenora
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 2 records
Barbeau Houselisted 2004
North Fork Solomon River Lattice Truss Bridgelisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresLenora fell from 250 to 207 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 | 250 | |
| 2020 | 207 | -43 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lenora West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lenora in 2015, burning about 330 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 1 April 2015 | Natural | 300 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 1 April 2015 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 18 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 64 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenora in 64 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 34 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Lenora | $200,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | $100,000 | Top of grain bin blown off. Power lines down. Shed destroyed. Trailer blown into pole. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | $8,000 | Straight-line winds ripped metal tin panels off a roof of a barn. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | $6,000 | As a strong thunderstorm moved over the town of Lenora, a large healthy hardwood tree was split in half down the trunk. Half of the tree remained upright while the other half landed on the roof of a home and damaged several wooden fence panels. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | $5,000 | Trailer home had siding blown off one side of trailer. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Lenora | $1,500 | Public reported windows were broken out of the house. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | Reported via Weather Underground mesonet site KKSLENOR7. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | Reported via Weather Underground mesonet site KKSLENOR20. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | Pea size hail occurred with the wind gusts of 50-60 MPH. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lenora | - | Quarter size hail started at :40 after, then increased to half dollar size at :44 after. The hail also occurred with estimated 70 MPH wind gusts. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lenora | - | Hail ranging in size from golf ball to baseball fell in the Lenora area over a period of five minutes. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Lenora | - | Numerous ping-pong to golf ball size hail fell. |
| November 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Lenora | - | The tornado tracked northeast through Lenora, then turned more to the north. In Lenora windows and garage doors were blown out/damaged. In addition to the window damage, an aluminum door was folded and mangled at the Coop. Trees were blown through windows in town along with some minor damage to outbuildings. A Nex-Tech building had the roof blown off of it and onto the highway. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Lenora | - | The ground is completely covered with hail. |
| October 2011 | Flood | Lenora | - | Rainfall totaled over five inches at Norton Dam, and newspaper accounts later stated that flooding occurred across parts of the county with some roads southeast of Lenora closed due to water flowing across the road. A large part of the county received three to five inches of rainfall overnight which washed out some county roads. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lenora | - | Hail reported to be covering the ground. Small (1-inch diameter) tree limbs also down. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lenora | - | Report relayed via CoCoRaHS program. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lenora | - | Hail lasted 35 minutes. Size ranged from nickel to quarter diameter. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Lenora | - | Brief tornado lasting under 1 minute. Over open fields. No known damage. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Lenora | - | Hail lasted 7 minutes with sizes from quarter to half dollar. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | Wind gust measured at KSNO |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | 16-inch diameter tree limb down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | Decaying thunderstorms east of Lenora produced a minor heat burst event. Temperatures rose from 64 to 73 degrees F between 10:50 pm CDT and 12:30 am CDT accompanied by winds of 67 mph. No known damage. Gusty winds persisted over 2 hours. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Lenora | - | Minor Street Flooding. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | 58 mph gust recorded at Lenora School. Higher gusts likely across town with numerous tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter down. One 12 inch diameter tree blown over. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| December 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lenora | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lenora | - | 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 Lenora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2096264 | 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 471118. 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.




