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Louisville, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Louisville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66547. It stands on Elm Slough. The Survey maps it on the Louisville quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Louisville within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Louisville fell from 188 to 131 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
2010188
2020131-57 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Louisville between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,514 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176012
8 April 2017Debris and open burning10 acresPottawatomie County2017014
6 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acrePottawatomie County28
3 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service44
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresKansas Forest ServiceFLINT ROCK
29 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service2015060
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service51
10 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service47

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Louisville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mc Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wamego Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisville in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2007FloodLouisville$50,000Moderate or greater flooding of Rock Creek in the vicinity of Louisville and the Kansas River in the vicinity of Wamego. Some lowland flooding and a few county roads closed.
May 2000LightningLouisville$1,000Lightning did minor damage to a home near Louisville.
April 2025Flash FloodLouisville$250Small creek overflowed from the heavy rainfall, resulting in low lying homes being affected.
June 2022HailLouisville-Golf ball sized hail reported.
July 2020Flash FloodLouisville-Deep water flowing over Louis Vieux Road from farm field.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph.
March 2017Tornado (EF0)Louisville-Emergency management reported visual confirmation of a |tornado at this location with no reliable damage indicators impacted. |Time estimated based on radar data.
August 2017HailLouisville-Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph were also reported.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Wind knocked down power lines.
June 2011Flash FloodLouisville-Rock Creek was out of its banks and was flooding residences in Louisville.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLouisville-The public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2010Flash FloodLouisville-Highway 99 two miles north of Wamego has been closed due to heavy rain. Highway 24 eastbound at Camp Creek Road closed due to rushing water.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Seven telephone poles sheared apart.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLouisville-High winds damaged the historic Louis Vieux Elm tree east of Lousiville, knocking off several limbs. The tree is estimated to be about 130 years old.
June 2024HailLouisville-no account filed
April 2016HailLouisville-no account filed
September 2015HailLouisville-no account filed
March 2012HailLouisville-no account filed
March 2012HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2011HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2011HailLouisville-no account filed
March 2008HailLouisville-no account filed
July 2008HailLouisville-no account filed
July 2004HailLouisville-no account filed
July 2002HailLouisville-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLouisville-no account filed
April 2001HailLouisville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLouisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Wamego3.4 miles17
Saint George6.9 miles18
Flush7.3 miles16
Belvue7.6 miles17
Laclede8.3 miles16
Swamp Angel9.7 miles18
Westmoreland11.2 miles17
Aikins13.3 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 LouisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2736390The 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 476241. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.