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Lone Elm, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lone Elm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66039. The Survey maps it on the Kincaid quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Lone Elm within Anderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Lone Elm grew from 25 to 27 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
201025
202027+2 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

25 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 2015 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1851065
12 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1556011
13 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1851055
4 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service1851039
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1556010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Elm in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2025HailLone Elm-Quarter size hail in Lone Elm.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLone Elm-Estimated wind gust report.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindLone Elm-The emergency manager relayed the report of utility poles down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLone Elm-The winds were strong enough to blow around lawn furniture.
April 2014Flash FloodLone Elm-Reports of several roads with flowing water over them from 600 RD south to the county line.
April 2014HailLone Elm-no account filed
April 2003HailLone Elm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Kincaid4.8 miles17
Colony6.5 miles16
Welda6.7 miles16
Selma7.4 miles17
Bush City10.4 miles17
Mont Ida11.5 miles16
Garnett13.8 miles17
Westphalia14.9 miles16

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 Lone ElmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1983923The 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 478132. 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.