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Morganville, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67468. It stands on Mulberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clay Center NW quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Morganville within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Morganville fell from 192 to 180 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
2010192
2020180-12 (-6%)

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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Morganville between 2015 and 2018, burning under an acre 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2948
7 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service150005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morganville in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 25 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 1994HailMorganville$5,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMorganville$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailMorganville$500no account filed
June 2022HailMorganville-Golf ball sized hail reported.
May 2021HailMorganville-Quarter size hail reported.
July 2021Flash FloodMorganville-Report of water over multiple roads in the city of Morganville.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMorganville-Tree limbs estimated 2 to 3 inches in diameter blown down.
August 2019Flash FloodMorganville-Flash flooding of roads one to two miles east of Morganville.
May 2019HailMorganville-Hail was also covering the ground.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMorganville-Several 10 inch diameter limbs are down.
September 2018Flash FloodMorganville-Water was flowing over the road near 23rd and Hackberry road.
September 2018Flash FloodMorganville-Water was flowing over the road at 26th and Jayhawk.
June 2015Flash FloodMorganville-Water running over the road at 25th and Frontier rd, 26th and Jayhawk rd, and 23rd and Hackberry rd.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMorganville-Trees reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMorganville-Trees down in town.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Morganville-Small tornado skipped northeast and produced EF1 damage at a home along Parallel road on the Clay and Washington county border. Outbuildings were destroyed and grain bins were blown away. Ponderosa pines were sheared off near the stump in a narrow path to the northeast.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMorganville-A machine shed destroyed.
June 2011Flash FloodMorganville-Morganville was inundated by flash flooding. Numerous city buildings were flooded, and virtually all roads in the vicinity were washed out.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMorganville-An emergency manager reported 60 mph winds near Clifton.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMorganville-Power poles were blown down in Morganville on 27th and 28th Street.
January 2006HailMorganville-Reported at 28th and Jayhawk Rd.
May 2004Flash FloodMorganville-Runoff from heavy rains flooded roads for a time.
May 2019HailMorganville-no account filed
October 2016HailMorganville-no account filed
October 2016HailMorganville-no account filed
May 2014HailMorganville-no account filed
August 2009HailMorganville-no account filed
March 2006HailMorganville-no account filed
April 2006HailMorganville-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMorganville-no account filed
June 2006HailMorganville-no account filed
September 2006HailMorganville-no account filed
April 2005HailMorganville-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodMorganville-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMorganville-no account filed
May 2003HailMorganville-no account filed
April 2002HailMorganville-no account filed
June 2000HailMorganville-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMorganville-no account filed
July 2000HailMorganville-no account filed
June 1999HailMorganville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMorganville-no account filed
June 1998HailMorganville-no account filed
March 1998HailMorganville-no account filed
May 1996HailMorganville-no account filed
May 1996HailMorganville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Oscar (historical)5.3 miles13
Garfield Center5.6 miles13
Clay Center7.4 miles14
Idana8.2 miles14
Vining8.5 miles13
Browndale10.8 miles14
Green10.9 miles14
Broughton (historical)12.7 miles14

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 MorganvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054925The 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 476020. 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.