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Minneola, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Appleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67865. The Survey maps it on the Minneola quadrangle. 738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,549 feet above sea level.

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Minneola within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Minneola fell from 745 to 738 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
2010745
2020738-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Minneola between 2017 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined2
Natural2
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
17 June 2017Natural40 acresClark County2017039
12 June 2020Natural6.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service30718
19 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresClark County43525
18 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresClark County19

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

60 of 221 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minneola in 221 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 151 hail, 44 thunderstorm wind, 13 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 1997HailMinneola$2,000,000Nearly every window in the small community were broken with siding destroyed on many homes. Cars received considerable damage too. Shingles were also torn off. Skylights broken at the school.
May 1998HailMinneola$160,000A USDA report indicated tennis ball size hail across parts of the county but no specific information was given to the location or time. There was damage to crops...almost county wide.
June 2009HailMinneola$30,000Golf ball sized hail covered the ground and combined with high wind caused extensive damage to vehicles and farm equipment.
May 1998HailMinneola$20,000no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindMinneola$15,000A mobile home was blown over by high wind.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMinneola$3,000no account filed
March 2001Thunderstorm WindMinneola$500Road sign blown down on the east side of town.
September 2025HailMinneola-A public report of 1 inch hail.
September 2025HailMinneola-A public report of 3 inch hail. Another 1 inch hail report in the same place a couple minutes later.
September 2025HailMinneola-A public report of 4 inch hail from social media with pictures.
September 2025HailMinneola-A public report of 2 inch hail.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMinneola-The observer reported roof damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
August 2021HailMinneola-There was severe roof and siding damage.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Minneola-Brief tornado on the foward flank videotaped by a storm chaser.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMinneola-There was also very heavy rain with the wind.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Minneola-The tornado moved out of Meade County at 1943 LST and moved into Ford County at 1952 LST. As it crossed Highway 54 it overturned a semi truck but fortunately the driver was not hurt.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Winds were estimated at 70 MPH.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Minneola-The tornado did damage to vehicles, power lines and a small outbuildings.
May 2017Flash FloodMinneola-Water over the roads in and around Minneola.
May 2017Flash FloodMinneola-Rain water was curb-to-curb.
May 2017Funnel CloudMinneola-There was a brief cone funnel.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMinneola-There was also ping pong ball sized hail with the high wind.
June 2014HailMinneola-Winds also gusted to 60 MPH with the hail.
June 2014HailMinneola-Winds were gusting to 60 MPH while the hail fell.
June 2014HailMinneola-The hail covered the ground.
June 2014Heavy RainMinneola-Rainfall of 4.00 inches was observed.
June 2013HailMinneola-The lasted for 14 minutes.
August 2013Heavy RainMinneola-Rainfall of 4.95 inches was reported.
April 2012HailMinneola-The hail covered the ground.
June 2011HailMinneola-Hail covered the ground.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Tree branches of 4 to 5 inches in diameter were broken and several power poles were blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Six inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind.
June 2009Heavy RainMinneola-Rainfall of 2.75 was reported overnight.
June 2009Heavy RainMinneola-Rainfall of 3.40 was reported overnight.
June 2009HailMinneola-The hail covered the ground.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Three inch diameter tree branches blown down by the high wind.
May 2006FloodMinneola-Water rose out of the ditch and across highway 283 with about 1 inch of depth.
May 2006Heavy RainMinneola-3.50" of rain fell overnight.
May 2006FloodMinneola-Water was covering the highway on the south side of Minneola.
May 2006Heavy RainMinneola-4.30" of rain fell overnight.
May 2006Heavy RainMinneola-2.10" of rain fell overnight
October 2006Tornado (F0)Minneola-This was a landspout tornado that moved slowly ESE.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Minneola-This was a brief tornado that did not strike anything.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Minneola-This brief tornado did not strike anything.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Minneola-This brief tornado did not strike anything.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Minneola-This small tornado did not strike anything.
June 2004HailMinneola-Most of the ground was covered by the hail
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Three to four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Twelve inch diameter tree was split in half and several five inch diameter tree limbs were broken off
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Two to three inch diameter limbs were blown down.
July 2004HailMinneola-Also, had 2.50" or rain in 30 minutes.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMinneola-Three inch limbs were broken.
April 2003HailMinneola-The hail covered the ground.
April 2003HailMinneola-Several windows were broken.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Minneola-This smaller tornado did not hit anything in the sparsely populated area.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Minneola-This tornado had nothing to hit to be rated.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Minneola-A brief landspout lasted less than a minute.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Ashland22.0 miles11
Lexington24.3 miles12
Sitka26.7 miles13
Englewood28.0 miles11

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 MinneolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2089706The 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 470690. 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.