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.
Population over time
2 figuresMorganville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -12 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Clay Center NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2948 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 150005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
46 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Hail | Morganville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Morganville | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Morganville | - | Golf ball sized hail reported. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Morganville | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Report of water over multiple roads in the city of Morganville. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | Tree limbs estimated 2 to 3 inches in diameter blown down. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Flash flooding of roads one to two miles east of Morganville. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Morganville | - | Hail was also covering the ground. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | Several 10 inch diameter limbs are down. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Water was flowing over the road near 23rd and Hackberry road. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Water was flowing over the road at 26th and Jayhawk. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Water running over the road at 25th and Frontier rd, 26th and Jayhawk rd, and 23rd and Hackberry rd. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | Trees reported down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | Trees down in town. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | A machine shed destroyed. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Morganville was inundated by flash flooding. Numerous city buildings were flooded, and virtually all roads in the vicinity were washed out. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | An emergency manager reported 60 mph winds near Clifton. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | Power poles were blown down in Morganville on 27th and 28th Street. |
| January 2006 | Hail | Morganville | - | Reported at 28th and Jayhawk Rd. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | Runoff from heavy rains flooded roads for a time. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Morganville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Morganville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar (historical) | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Garfield Center | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Clay Center | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Idana | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Vining | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Browndale | 10.8 miles | 14 | |
| Green | 10.9 miles | 14 | |
| Broughton (historical) | 12.7 miles | 14 |
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 Morganville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2054925 | 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 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.





