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.
Population over time
2 figuresLiberty 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 123 | |
| 2020 | 99 | -24 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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 Independence quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Montgomery County | 1750055 |
| 14 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Montgomery County | 1750053 |
| 4 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1850045 |
| 2 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1520075 |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1550028 |
| 4 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1840077 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $100 | US Highway 160 south of Cherryvale flooded with water rushing over the road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | The emergency manager reported the gust. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Liberty | - | A water rescue was needed along 3400 road just south of Liberty. The car was in high water and was sinking. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | A power pole and tree were blown down at the intersection on Sunflower road neat Liberty. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Liberty | - | Quarter-sized hail falling at the junction of Highways 160 and 169. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avian | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Corbin (historical) | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Fruitland | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Independence | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Cherryvale | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Coffeyville | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Blake | 8.7 miles | 18 | |
| West Coffeyville | 9.0 miles | 17 |
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 Liberty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2533973 | 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 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.










