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Liberty, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67351. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Liberty within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Liberty fell from 123 to 99 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
2010123
202099-24 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

22 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2015 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMontgomery County1750055
14 September 2017Debris and open burning20 acresMontgomery County1750053
4 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1850045
2 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1520075
6 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1550028
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1840077

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2019Flash FloodLiberty$100US Highway 160 south of Cherryvale flooded with water rushing over the road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLiberty-The emergency manager reported the gust.
June 2019Flash FloodLiberty-A water rescue was needed along 3400 road just south of Liberty. The car was in high water and was sinking.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLiberty-A power pole and tree were blown down at the intersection on Sunflower road neat Liberty.
May 2012HailLiberty-Quarter-sized hail falling at the junction of Highways 160 and 169.
April 2024HailLiberty-no account filed
April 2016HailLiberty-no account filed
May 2010HailLiberty-no account filed
May 2000HailLiberty-no account filed
May 1999HailLiberty-no account filed
May 1997HailLiberty-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLiberty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Avian4.1 miles17
Corbin (historical)7.0 miles17
Fruitland7.0 miles17
Independence7.7 miles17
Cherryvale8.2 miles17
Coffeyville8.2 miles17
Blake8.7 miles18
West Coffeyville9.0 miles17

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 LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2533973The 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 469419. 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.