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Mapleton, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Timberhill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66754. It stands on Baker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Mapleton within Bourbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Mapleton grew from 84 to 96 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
201084
202096+12 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton between 2006 and 2018, burning about 7,550 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 burning15
Smoking11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
13 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service502
10 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service141
4 March 2018Debris and open burning240 acresKansas Forest Service57
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,000 acresKansas CountiesOBEE
3 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service52
23 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service115
22 March 2018Debris and open burning400 acresKansas Forest Service110

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMapleton$10,000Numerous trees, power lines, and poles were reported down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMapleton$5,000A power pole and some large limbs were reported down.
April 2022HailMapleton-Hail up to half dollar in size was reported.
October 2016HailMapleton-Dime size hail was reported near Mapleton.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Winds were estimated by the Emergency Manager.
September 2010Flash FloodMapleton-A section of Highway 65 was closed where one foot of water was reported over the road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Several trees were blown down from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008Flash FloodMapleton-Excessive rain caused flooding of low lying roads near the communities of Fulton and Devon. A section of Highway 31 approximately five miles west of Fulton was closed to motorists due to flooding.
June 2004Flash FloodMapleton-Heavy thunderstorms caused flash flooding near the intersection of Highway 7 and 31 in Mapleton.
April 2011HailMapleton-no account filed
June 2011HailMapleton-no account filed
June 2009HailMapleton-no account filed
August 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
May 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
May 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
July 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
April 2001HailMapleton-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMapleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Harding3.7 miles20
Xenia5.6 miles19
Berlin6.5 miles19
Devon7.3 miles20
Fulton8.7 miles15
Hammond11.4 miles20
Barnesville11.8 miles15
Redfield12.3 miles19

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 MapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2643103The 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 478152. 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.