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.
Population over time
2 figuresMapleton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 96 | +12 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Mapleton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 15 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 502 |
| 10 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 141 |
| 4 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 240 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 57 |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,000 acres | Kansas Counties | OBEE |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 52 |
| 23 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 115 |
| 22 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 110 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $10,000 | Numerous trees, power lines, and poles were reported down. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $5,000 | A power pole and some large limbs were reported down. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Hail up to half dollar in size was reported. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Dime size hail was reported near Mapleton. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Winds were estimated by the Emergency Manager. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | A section of Highway 65 was closed where one foot of water was reported over the road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Several trees were blown down from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | Heavy thunderstorms caused flash flooding near the intersection of Highway 7 and 31 in Mapleton. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | 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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2643103 | 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 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.







