Moline, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wildcat Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67353. It stands on North Fork Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moline quadrangle. 345 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMoline fell from 371 to 345 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 | 371 | |
| 2020 | 345 | -26 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1885 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Moline quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Moline between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3,605 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Elk County | 170068 |
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1868 |
| 29 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500065 |
| 19 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1853 |
| 19 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1855 |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 600 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1846 |
| 28 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
43 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moline in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | $50,000 | Damage was reported to buildings and homes, including windows blown out. One mobile home was also damaged. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Moline | $25,000 | Unspecified number of vehicles damaged with windows broken out of homes, businesses and vehicles. (Narrative courtesy of Independence Daily Reporter.) |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Moline | $500 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Moline | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flood | Moline | - | Portions of US Highway 160 flooded between the town of Elk Falls and Dove Road, east of Moline. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Moline | - | A couple of hardwood trees fell onto a car near a vacant house. Minimal if any damage occurred to the nearby home. A shed across the road had some tin peeled up on it, but it has open sides. A smaller tree down the road, to the north, had its trunk snapped. There was damage to a power pole and broken branches off a tree at the end of the path. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Moline | - | A multi-vortex brief tornado just south of Moline and secondary to the main rotation off to the north. No damage occurred. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Moline | - | Multiple locations along United States Highway 160 were closed due to water flowing over the roadway. Other roadways were in the area were impacted with water covering them. The Longton cooperative observer measured 6.9 inches of rain during the morning hours of the 28th. Some roads were washed out in the county as well. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Moline | - | Two cedar trees had snapped trunks in the cemetery. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | A trained spotter estimated a brief gust of 60 mph winds along with dime sized hail. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | Damage was reported to trees and a house from strong winds. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | There was structural damage to a previously compromised building. There was a portion of a wall collapsed. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Moline | - | US Highway 160 was closed due to high water from Moline to the Montgomery County Line. Much of this segment of US-160 was flooded about 11 inches deep. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Moline | - | This was also a delayed report received via Face Book. The time of the event was estimated from radar. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Moline | - | High water flowed across Highway 160 in several locations from Elk Falls, through Moline to Grenola. Depths reached 3 feet in some locations, prompting the closure of Highway 160. A trained spotter measured 5.20 inches of rain in Moline from 1600 to 1948 CST. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Moline | - | Flooding was reported near mile marker 378 along Highway 160 between Elk Falls and Moline. Damage estimates, if any, are unknown. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | Winds estimated by an off duty NWS employee. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Moline | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Moline | - | Tornado touched down in open country. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Moline | - | Highway 99 flooded near Elk/Chautauqua county line. Road closed. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Moline | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Moline | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Falls | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Grenola | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Howard | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Longton | 11.9 miles | 13 | |
| Fiat | 13.5 miles | 19 | |
| Cave Springs | 15.3 miles | 19 | |
| Oak Valley | 15.6 miles | 13 | |
| Busby | 15.7 miles | 13 |
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 Moline | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925105 | 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 469874. 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.





