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.
Population over time
2 figuresLorraine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 138 | |
| 2020 | 137 | -1 (-1%) |
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.
- 1894 USGS Ellsworth quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Lorraine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016007 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015007 |
| 15 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018006 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015006 |
| 24 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
| 29 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
53 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | $10,000 | A PORCH AWNING WAS BLOWN OFF A HOUSE. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Lorraine | $9,750 | Brief tornado touchdown in open country, knocked down 13 power poles and downed a few tree limbs. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | Wind gust recorded by the Kansas State Mesonet site in Lorraine, Kansas. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lorraine | - | Broadcast media (KWCH TV) reported ping-pong ball sized hail. An image was sent via social media. |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | Lorraine | - | Twenty four hour total from a Cocarahs observer of 1.37 inches. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Lorraine | - | A cocorahs observer reported 2.90 inches in 24 hours. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | 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 2018 | Hail | Lorraine | - | Report was relayed via KWCH. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | This was a measured wind speed. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Lorraine | - | County roads were closed between Bushton and Geneseo. Ditches were full near Bushton. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | No damage was reported. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lorraine | - | The hail was reported by a KWCH-TV storm chaser. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Lorraine | - | The hail lasted 20 minutes. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Lorraine | - | Winds estimated at 50 mph occurred with the hail. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs downed just northwest of Geneseo. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lorraine | - | KSN Channel 3. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lorraine | - | Co-op observer. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorraine | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Lorraine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frantz (historical) | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Holyrood | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Midway | 9.1 miles | 15 | |
| Ellsworth | 12.1 miles | 14 | |
| Kanopolis | 13.0 miles | 14 | |
| Black Wolf | 13.3 miles | 14 | |
| Yankee Run | 16.9 miles | 14 | |
| Venango | 18.2 miles | 18 |
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 Lorraine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2527481 | 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 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.





