Longford, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chapman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67458. The Survey maps it on the Longford quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLongford fell from 79 to 73 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 | 79 | |
| 2020 | 73 | -6 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Longford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Longford between 2015 and 2017, burning about 181 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Clay County | 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longford in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Longford | $30,000 | This tornado formed 5 miles northeast of Longford at 3:14pm cst and travelled 4 miles before lifting 9 miles northeast of Longford at 3:19pm cst. It was an F0 tornado with a path width of 100 yards that caused damage to 3 outbuildings and downed a large tree. It formed from a supercell thunderstorm. The tornado was reported as being on the ground briefly at the same time as the tornado 4 miles east-northeast of Longford by a storm chaser. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | $2,000 | Strong winds ripped a door and its metal siding from an outbuilding and carried it 60 feet into a farmhouse. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | $1,000 | Strong winds blew down a power pole. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Six inch tree limb down in Longford. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Small tree limbs were reported down. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Longford | - | There were 40 to 50 mph winds reported. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | A small all terrain vehicle was tossed across the yard by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Trained spotters and law enforcement officers reported 60 t0 65 mph wind gusts throughout Clay County. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Significant straight line wind damage from southwest to northeast Clay County. The County Emergency Manager reported 35 residences damaged by winds. Several farm outbuildings, sheds, and grain bins were completed destroyed. Five homes had damage and numerous trees and power poles were damaged. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Power poles reported snapped on Cherokee Rd. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | Several trees blown down over the road. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Longford | - | This tornado formed 4 miles east-northeast of Longford at 3:13pm cst and stayed on the ground for 1 mile before disipating 5 miles east-northeast of Longford at 3:15pm cst. It was an F0 tornado with a path width of 100 yards. Damage was only to trees. It was caused by a supercell thunderstorm. This tornado was reported as being briefly on the ground at the same time as the tornado 5 miles northeast of Longford. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Longford | - | Many small tree branches were also reported down. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Longford | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. A county road was flooded. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longford | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Longford | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Longford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Industry | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Ladysmith | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Browndale | 13.1 miles | 14 | |
| Idana | 13.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wakefield | 17.5 miles | 14 | |
| Clay Center | 18.0 miles | 14 | |
| Broughton (historical) | 18.1 miles | 14 |
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 Longford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2180235 | 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 476307. 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.





