Leonardville, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bala Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66449. The Survey maps it on the Riley quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeonardville fell from 449 to 432 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 | 449 | |
| 2020 | 432 | -17 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Riley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Leonardville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 58 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 3 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18417 |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18274 |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 73 |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 70 |
| 10 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Riley County | not named |
| 9 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18066 |
| 8 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonardville in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leonardville | $60,000 | Water one foot deep over Barton road one quarter mile east of Union road. |
| August 1997 | Lightning | Leonardville | $23,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Leonardville | - | Photos shared via social media. Time estimated radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | Power poles and power lines down at Alembic and Sherman Roads. Just southwest of Leonardville. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | Pea size hail. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | An emergency manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville | - | 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 Leonardville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2196949 | 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 476201. 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.








