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Leona, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66532. It stands on Brown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highland quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Leona within Doniphan County

On record in Leona

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

Leona fell from 48 to 41 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
201048
202041-7 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Leona between 2015 and 2020, burning about 153 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
29 August 2020Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018026
9 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
18 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDoniphan County2017015
13 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use35 acresKansas Forest Service2016012
26 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreBrown County2017009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leona in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023HailLeona-Half dollar sized hail was reported just SSE of Leona in Doniphan County.
September 2016Flash FloodLeona-There was waist-deep water reported over the bridge along Ashpointe Road. The amount of damages to the highway is unknown.
June 2014Flash FloodLeona-Water running over the road at 170th and Ash Point.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindLeona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Severance4.0 miles23
Denton4.7 miles20
Highland5.7 miles19
Purcell7.4 miles20
Moray8.1 miles23
Bendena8.2 miles27
Sparks8.5 miles23
Fanning9.1 miles23

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 LeonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2243076The 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 473008. 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.