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Lorraine, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Green Garden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67459. The Survey maps it on the Lorraine quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,788 feet above sea level.

Lorraine within Ellsworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Lorraine fell from 138 to 137 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
2010138
2020137-1 (-1%)

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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lorraine between 2015 and 2020, burning about 113 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 April 2020Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2016Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016007
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service21
7 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015007
15 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018006
11 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2015006
24 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service15
29 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellsworth County

Storms near this place

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorraine in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 34 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindLorraine$10,000A PORCH AWNING WAS BLOWN OFF A HOUSE.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Lorraine$9,750Brief tornado touchdown in open country, knocked down 13 power poles and downed a few tree limbs.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLorraine-Wind gust recorded by the Kansas State Mesonet site in Lorraine, Kansas.
June 2024HailLorraine-Broadcast media (KWCH TV) reported ping-pong ball sized hail. An image was sent via social media.
June 2023Heavy RainLorraine-Twenty four hour total from a Cocarahs observer of 1.37 inches.
July 2022Heavy RainLorraine-A cocorahs observer reported 2.90 inches in 24 hours.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLorraine-This is the beginning of an intense straight line wind event that moved out of Ellsworth county into Rice county. The narrow band of wind moved over open county and knocked over power lines for approximately one half mile.
August 2018HailLorraine-Report was relayed via KWCH.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLorraine-This was a measured wind speed.
July 2013FloodLorraine-County roads were closed between Bushton and Geneseo. Ditches were full near Bushton.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLorraine-No damage was reported.
April 2011HailLorraine-The hail was reported by a KWCH-TV storm chaser.
September 2009HailLorraine-The hail lasted 20 minutes.
August 2009HailLorraine-Winds estimated at 50 mph occurred with the hail.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLorraine-Four inch diameter tree limbs downed just northwest of Geneseo.
May 2005HailLorraine-KSN Channel 3.
May 2002HailLorraine-Co-op observer.
April 2026HailLorraine-no account filed
April 2026HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2024HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2023HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2021HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2020HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2014HailLorraine-no account filed
April 2011HailLorraine-no account filed
July 2011HailLorraine-no account filed
August 2009HailLorraine-no account filed
August 2009HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2008HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2008HailLorraine-no account filed
April 2006HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2005HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2005HailLorraine-no account filed
May 2005HailLorraine-no account filed
September 2004HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2002HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2002HailLorraine-no account filed
August 2002HailLorraine-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
June 2001HailLorraine-no account filed
June 2001HailLorraine-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
May 1998HailLorraine-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
May 1998HailLorraine-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
May 1996HailLorraine-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLorraine-no account filed
July 1995HailLorraine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellsworth 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
Frantz (historical)4.3 miles15
Holyrood5.2 miles13
Midway9.1 miles15
Ellsworth12.1 miles14
Kanopolis13.0 miles14
Black Wolf13.3 miles14
Yankee Run16.9 miles14
Venango18.2 miles18

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 LorraineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2527481The 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 475549. 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.