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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.

Moline within Elk County

Population over time

2 figures

Moline 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.

YearPeople Change
2010371
2020345-26 (-7%)

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

22 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
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
27 August 2017Arson/incendiarism50 acresElk County170068
26 August 2020Debris and open burning8.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1868
29 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500065
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresKansas Forest Service1853
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1855
16 April 2018Debris and open burning600 acresKansas Forest Service1846
28 March 2020Debris and open burning42 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elk County

Storms near this place

43 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMoline$50,000Damage was reported to buildings and homes, including windows blown out. One mobile home was also damaged.
May 2005HailMoline$25,000Unspecified number of vehicles damaged with windows broken out of homes, businesses and vehicles. (Narrative courtesy of Independence Daily Reporter.)
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMoline$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMoline$3,000no account filed
April 1994HailMoline$500no account filed
April 1994HailMoline$500no account filed
May 2024FloodMoline-Portions of US Highway 160 flooded between the town of Elk Falls and Dove Road, east of Moline.
April 2024Tornado (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 2024Tornado (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 2024Flash FloodMoline-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 2024Tornado (EF1)Moline-Two cedar trees had snapped trunks in the cemetery.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindMoline-A trained spotter estimated a brief gust of 60 mph winds along with dime sized hail.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMoline-Damage was reported to trees and a house from strong winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMoline-There was structural damage to a previously compromised building. There was a portion of a wall collapsed.
May 2019Flash FloodMoline-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 2017HailMoline-This was also a delayed report received via Face Book. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
June 2014Flash FloodMoline-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 2010FloodMoline-Flooding was reported near mile marker 378 along Highway 160 between Elk Falls and Moline. Damage estimates, if any, are unknown.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoline-Winds estimated by an off duty NWS employee.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Moline-Brief touchdown in open country.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Moline-Tornado touched down in open country.
May 2002Flash FloodMoline-Highway 99 flooded near Elk/Chautauqua county line. Road closed.
April 2015HailMoline-no account filed
March 2011HailMoline-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
May 2008HailMoline-no account filed
April 2007HailMoline-no account filed
April 2006HailMoline-no account filed
March 2006HailMoline-no account filed
March 2006HailMoline-no account filed
May 2002HailMoline-no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindMoline-no account filed
April 2001HailMoline-no account filed
May 2000HailMoline-no account filed
June 1998HailMoline-no account filed
May 1997HailMoline-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMoline-no account filed
April 1994HailMoline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elk 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
Elk Falls6.1 miles13
Grenola7.8 miles13
Howard7.9 miles13
Longton11.9 miles13
Fiat13.5 miles19
Cave Springs15.3 miles19
Oak Valley15.6 miles13
Busby15.7 miles13

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 MolineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925105The 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.