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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.

Longford within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Longford 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.

YearPeople Change
201079
202073-6 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2015

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service9
10 April 2015Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service7
18 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresClay County11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F0)Longford$30,000This 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 2001Thunderstorm WindLongford$2,000Strong winds ripped a door and its metal siding from an outbuilding and carried it 60 feet into a farmhouse.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLongford$1,000Strong winds blew down a power pole.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLongford-Six inch tree limb down in Longford.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLongford-Small tree limbs were reported down.
May 2013HailLongford-There were 40 to 50 mph winds reported.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLongford-A small all terrain vehicle was tossed across the yard by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLongford-Trained spotters and law enforcement officers reported 60 t0 65 mph wind gusts throughout Clay County.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindLongford-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 2007Thunderstorm WindLongford-Power poles reported snapped on Cherokee Rd.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLongford-Several trees blown down over the road.
April 2006Tornado (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 2006HailLongford-Many small tree branches were also reported down.
June 2004Flash FloodLongford-Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. A county road was flooded.
June 2024HailLongford-no account filed
June 2024HailLongford-no account filed
June 2015HailLongford-no account filed
May 2014HailLongford-no account filed
May 2013HailLongford-no account filed
June 2008HailLongford-no account filed
March 2006HailLongford-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLongford-no account filed
April 2002HailLongford-no account filed
April 2002HailLongford-no account filed
July 2001HailLongford-no account filed
May 1998HailLongford-no account filed
August 1997HailLongford-no account filed
July 1996HailLongford-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLongford-no account filed
May 1995HailLongford-no account filed
June 1995HailLongford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Oak Hill5.4 miles14
Industry8.8 miles15
Ladysmith10.5 miles14
Browndale13.1 miles14
Idana13.4 miles14
Wakefield17.5 miles14
Clay Center18.0 miles14
Broughton (historical)18.1 miles14

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 LongfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2180235The 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.