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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.

Leonardville within Riley County

Population over time

2 figures

Leonardville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010449
2020432-17 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

13 since 2004

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service8
3 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18417
6 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18274
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service73
14 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service70
10 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresRiley Countynot named
9 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18066
8 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

35 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Flash FloodLeonardville$60,000Water one foot deep over Barton road one quarter mile east of Union road.
August 1997LightningLeonardville$23,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonardville$2,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonardville$1,000no account filed
April 2025HailLeonardville-Photos shared via social media. Time estimated radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-Measured on a personal weather station.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-Power poles and power lines down at Alembic and Sherman Roads. Just southwest of Leonardville.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-Pea size hail.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-An emergency manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
May 2019HailLeonardville-no account filed
August 2019HailLeonardville-no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
May 2016HailLeonardville-no account filed
May 2015HailLeonardville-no account filed
August 2014HailLeonardville-no account filed
May 2014HailLeonardville-no account filed
April 2014HailLeonardville-no account filed
April 2014HailLeonardville-no account filed
September 2007HailLeonardville-no account filed
June 2005HailLeonardville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
October 2002HailLeonardville-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
May 1999HailLeonardville-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
May 1999HailLeonardville-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
May 1999HailLeonardville-no account filed
June 1998HailLeonardville-no account filed
June 1998HailLeonardville-no account filed
July 1996HailLeonardville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonardville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riley 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
Walsburg3.2 miles19
Riley4.8 miles19
Lasita5.4 miles19
Bala6.1 miles19
Randolph6.9 miles19
Winkler8.2 miles19
Keats12.6 miles25
Elm Hollow Corner14.4 miles25

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 LeonardvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2196949The 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.