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Meade, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Meade Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67864. It lies near Artesian Valley. The Survey maps it on the Meade quadrangle. 1,505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,497 feet above sea level.

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Meade within Meade County

On record in Meade

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Meade fell from 1,721 to 1,505 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
20101,721
20201,505-216 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

21 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Meade between 2010 and 2020, burning about 732 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
17 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMeade County17024
1 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMeade County17054
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service150018
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresKansas Counties9162 FIRE
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service150028
27 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning8.0 acresKansas Forest Service18028
14 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service18024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

60 of 236 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meade in 236 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 154 hail, 61 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 7 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMeade$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down and there was structural damage to several buildings.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Meade$50,000Three hog barns were destroyed.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade$50,000Metal roof panels blown off a building. Pivot irrigation sprinkler was overturned and trees were blown down in the area.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindMeade$5,000Agtap observer estimated wind at 60 mph. Power lines were downed along his county road.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMeade$4,500Five telephone poles were blown down and a 10 foot by 12 foot shed was damagedand moved 30 feet.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade$2,500Five power poles were blown down.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade$1,000Tree down and power lines damaged.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMeade$1,000Three inch tree limbs blown down.
April 2025HailMeade-A public report of 1 inch hail.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMeade-The mesonet station UP367 4.9 NE Meade (UPR) reported a 66mph wind gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMeade-The gusts measured by station UP367 at 4.9 NE Meade.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMeade-Union Pacific Railroad near Meade recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMeade-At the Meade High School, a section of the roof peeled along with other damage on the flat roof from loose objects. The football field scoreboard was blown about 300 yards east or northeast into an adjacent tree row.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMeade-Recorded at mile marker 49.
September 2018Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall of 2.34 inches was measured.
September 2018Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall of 2.19 inches was measured.
May 2018Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall of 1.10 inches in less than an hour was observed.
August 2017Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall was 2.60 inches.
May 2015Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall was 4.3 inches.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMeade-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMeade-A semi truck hauling an empty cattle trailer was overturned on highway 54.
June 2009HailMeade-Six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down also.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMeade-Hail the size of quarters also accompanied the high wind.
June 2009HailMeade-The hail fell for 10 minutes.
June 2009HailMeade-Metal siding on the north side of the house was damaged by the hail that was accompanied by strong winds.
July 2007Heavy RainMeade-Rainfall of 2.55 inches fell overnight.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Meade-This was the first of 9 tornadoes in the Dodge City 27 county area. It did not damage anything in it's 3 minute lifespan.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Meade-This was a separate tornado that formed in the same general vicinity but did not hit anything.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Meade-This brief tornado did not strike anything.|
June 2005HailMeade-The observer was 9 miles west of Englewood.
June 2005HailMeade-Meade county reported 82,000 acres of crops with 70 percent damage and 2,300 acres with 40 percent damage from tornadoes, hail and high wind.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMeade-Four to five inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by the wind.
June 2005Tornado (F2)Meade-This tornado damaged outbuilds, trees and center pivot sprinklers.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMeade-This wind occurred with the 1 inch diameter hail. Three inch tree limbs were also blown down.
October 2005Tornado (F0)Meade-This tornado made contact for less than 1 minute. It was much larger near cloud base.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMeade-A business band antenna was blown down by the high wind.
April 2004Flash FloodMeade-Water flooded rural roads
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMeade-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMeade-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMeade-Numerous very large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2003HailMeade-The hail completely covered the ground.
June 2003HailMeade-Windows were knocked out by the hail
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMeade-Eight to ten inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMeade-Four to five inch diameter tree limbs broken.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade-Relayed from NWSO ICT - TV weather lab observation.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade-Ten inch limb broken.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMeade-Twelve inch diameter tree blown down.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindMeade-Two inch limbs down.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Meade-Windows blown out of a house.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindMeade-Two inch diameter limbs down.
August 1999Flash FloodMeade-Water was over highway 23 near the Meade/Gray county line.
June 1999HailMeade-Lasted 15 minutes.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMeade-Five to 6 inch tree limbs blown down. One ten inch tree limb blown down.
June 1997HailMeade-At the Meade State Park.
June 1997HailMeade-At the Meade State Park.
July 1997Flash FloodMeade-Water over old highway 160.
July 1997Flash FloodMeade-Roads flooded at Meade State Park.
July 1997Flash FloodMeade-Water over highway 98.
May 1997HailMeade-Hail covered the ground to 6 inches deep.
May 1997HailMeade-Location is Meade State Park

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Missler5.5 miles13
Collano8.9 miles8
Hobart9.7 miles8
Fowler10.3 miles14
Plains13.5 miles8

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 MeadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901559The 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 470596. 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.