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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.

Mankato within Jewell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mankato 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.

YearPeople Change
2010869
2020836-33 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2017

Regional 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 burning2

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
26 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJewell County2
18 February 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018001

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this place

49 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023HailMankato$1,000,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Mankato.
August 2020HailMankato$1,000,000A 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMankato$500,000Extremely strong thunderstorm winds caused extensive tree and structural damage across the area.
May 2013HailMankato$150,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMankato$50,000Wind 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 2014Thunderstorm WindMankato$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMankato$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some tree damage in Mankato, including one large tree downed at the county courthouse.
June 2015HailMankato$25,000no account filed
April 2015HailMankato$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMankato$25,000no account filed
April 2003HailMankato$25,000no account filed
August 1997HailMankato$25,000no account filed
May 1999HailMankato$20,000no account filed
May 2016HailMankato$15,000no account filed
July 1996HailMankato$15,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMankato$10,000Tree damage was reported in Mankato.
April 2005Heavy RainMankato$10,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMankato$5,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. One power pole caught on fire due to arcing power lines.
April 2005HailMankato$5,000no account filed
May 1999HailMankato$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMankato$5,000no account filed
September 1993HailMankato$5,000no account filed
March 2012HailMankato$2,000One inch hail was reported at the junction of Highways 14 and 36.
June 2008HailMankato$2,000no account filed
September 1993HailMankato$500no account filed
May 1994HailMankato$50no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindMankato-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH caused minor tree damage in Mankato.
April 2016HailMankato-Nickel size hail was reported at the junction of Highway 36 and Highway 14.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMankato-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMankato-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014HailMankato-Peas to nickel size hail occurred.
April 2023HailMankato-no account filed
May 2016HailMankato-no account filed
May 2016HailMankato-no account filed
September 2015HailMankato-no account filed
June 2010HailMankato-no account filed
March 2006HailMankato-no account filed
April 2005HailMankato-no account filed
May 2004HailMankato-no account filed
July 2004Funnel CloudMankato-no account filed
July 2003HailMankato-no account filed
June 2003HailMankato-no account filed
March 2002HailMankato-no account filed
September 2001HailMankato-no account filed
June 1998HailMankato-no account filed
March 1998HailMankato-no account filed
July 1997HailMankato-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMankato-no account filed
May 1996HailMankato-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Montrose6.5 miles13
Burr Oak7.4 miles13
Otego7.8 miles13
Jewell8.5 miles13
Ionia11.2 miles13
Formoso11.6 miles13
Esbon12.2 miles14
Lovewell13.2 miles13

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 MankatoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2003280The 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.