Mankato, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66956. The Survey maps it on the Mankato quadrangle. 836 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,775 feet above sea level.
On record in Mankato
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
First National Banklisted 1976
Jewell County Courthouselisted 2002
Jewell County Jaillisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresMankato fell from 869 to 836 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 | 869 | |
| 2020 | 836 | -33 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Mankato quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Mankato quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mankato between 2017 and 2018, burning about 5 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Jewell County | 2 |
| 18 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018001 |
Storms near this place
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mankato in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 35 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Hail | Mankato | $1,000,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Mankato. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Mankato | $1,000,000 | A long-lived supercell produced a substantial swath of very large hail in the Mankato and Jewell areas, with large hail produced for a significant amount of time. A public report of golf ball size hail was received at 7:45 p.m. CDT in Mankato. By 7:50 p.m. CDT, the hail size in Mankato reached a measured diameter of 4 inches, with tennis ball size hail still falling in town at 8:10 p.m. CDT. At 8:13 p.m. CDT, golf ball size hail was reported about 3 miles northwest of Randall. At 8:15 p.m. CDT, 4 inch diameter hail was reported 2 miles north of Jewell, with baseball size hail in Jewell. Significant hail damage to homes, vehicles and crops occurred in the area. As just one example, local media reported that the Jewell County EMS Director's vehicle incurred major hail damage, including a shattered windshield. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $500,000 | Extremely strong thunderstorm winds caused extensive tree and structural damage across the area. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Mankato | $150,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in tree limbs being downed in Mankato and a power pole being snapped near Montrose. In the Lovewell State Park area, a roof of an old radio communications building was torn off and nearby crops were damaged. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $50,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $25,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some tree damage in Mankato, including one large tree downed at the county courthouse. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Mankato | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Mankato | $15,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $10,000 | Tree damage was reported in Mankato. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Mankato | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $5,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. One power pole caught on fire due to arcing power lines. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Mankato | $2,000 | One inch hail was reported at the junction of Highways 14 and 36. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mankato | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Mankato | $500 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Mankato | $50 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH caused minor tree damage in Mankato. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | Nickel size hail was reported at the junction of Highway 36 and Highway 14. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Mankato | - | Peas to nickel size hail occurred. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Mankato | - | 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.
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 Mankato | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2003280 | 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 471996. 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.




