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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.

Lenora within Norton County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lenora 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.

YearPeople Change
2010250
2020207-43 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2015

Regional 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
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service17
1 April 2015Natural300 acresKansas Forest Service8
1 April 2015Natural5.0 acresKansas Forest Service7
18 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norton County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999HailLenora$200,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLenora$100,000Top of grain bin blown off. Power lines down. Shed destroyed. Trailer blown into pole.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLenora$8,000Straight-line winds ripped metal tin panels off a roof of a barn.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLenora$6,000As 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 2007Thunderstorm WindLenora$5,000Trailer home had siding blown off one side of trailer.
August 2011HailLenora$1,500Public reported windows were broken out of the house.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLenora-Reported via Weather Underground mesonet site KKSLENOR7.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLenora-Reported via Weather Underground mesonet site KKSLENOR20.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLenora-Pea size hail occurred with the wind gusts of 50-60 MPH.
July 2023HailLenora-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 2022HailLenora-Hail ranging in size from golf ball to baseball fell in the Lenora area over a period of five minutes.
March 2018HailLenora-Numerous ping-pong to golf ball size hail fell.
November 2015Tornado (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 2013HailLenora-The ground is completely covered with hail.
October 2011FloodLenora-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 2008HailLenora-Hail reported to be covering the ground. Small (1-inch diameter) tree limbs also down.
May 2007HailLenora-Report relayed via CoCoRaHS program.
May 2007HailLenora-Hail lasted 35 minutes. Size ranged from nickel to quarter diameter.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Lenora-Brief tornado lasting under 1 minute. Over open fields. No known damage.
July 2007HailLenora-Hail lasted 7 minutes with sizes from quarter to half dollar.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLenora-Wind gust measured at KSNO
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLenora-16-inch diameter tree limb down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-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 2000Flash FloodLenora-Minor Street Flooding.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindLenora-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 2023HailLenora-no account filed
May 2013HailLenora-no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
December 2011Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
May 2008HailLenora-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
April 2008HailLenora-no account filed
September 2008HailLenora-no account filed
May 2007HailLenora-no account filed
May 2007HailLenora-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
April 2006HailLenora-no account filed
May 2006HailLenora-no account filed
July 2006HailLenora-no account filed
July 2006HailLenora-no account filed
May 2005HailLenora-no account filed
May 2005HailLenora-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
August 2005HailLenora-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
June 2004HailLenora-no account filed
June 2004HailLenora-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed
June 2003HailLenora-no account filed
June 2002HailLenora-no account filed
June 2000HailLenora-no account filed
May 1999HailLenora-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindLenora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Norton 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
New Almelo6.2 miles7
Edmond9.6 miles13
Dellvale11.3 miles9
Oronoque12.4 miles9
Clayton12.8 miles7
Densmore14.1 miles13
Reager15.7 miles9
Rockwell16.0 miles9

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 LenoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2096264The 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.