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Morrill, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Morrill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66515. The Survey maps it on the Morrill quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Morrill within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Morrill fell from 230 to 218 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
2010230
2020218-12 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Morrill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrown County12
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
1 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
7 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service7
3 March 2017Arson/incendiarism100 acresBrown County7
27 February 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresBrown County6
16 February 2016Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service1
5 December 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500087

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrill in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
March 1996Thunderstorm WindMorrill$80,000no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F0)Morrill$50,000no account filed
August 2007LightningMorrill$5,000A barn burned down after it was struck by lightning.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMorrill$5,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindMorrill$2,000Strong winds blew down power lines and large trees.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindMorrill-Measured at personal weather station.
May 2020HailMorrill-Nickel and quarter size hail reported in Morrill.
June 2015Flash FloodMorrill-The ditches were running out of their banks and down the streets.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrill-Significant building damage reported, numerous trees and power poles down, semis blown over.
June 2006HailMorrill-Reported near Morrill.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrill-Large tree limbs blown down with property damage of an unknown amount. Some windows were blown out as well.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrill-Several 8 to 10 inch diameter trees reported down. One such tree fell on a car and home in the town of Morrill, damaging both. A second tree in the Morrill City Park fell onto nearby power lines, knocking out power to several customers for a few hours.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMorrill-Eastern portion of new Morrill Community Building's firetruck storage area collapsed.
April 1995HailMorrill-Hail accumulated to depth of several inches and had to be scooped off roads with graders to prevent accidents.
April 2017HailMorrill-no account filed
April 2017HailMorrill-no account filed
August 2016HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2015HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2005HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2005HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2004HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2004HailMorrill-no account filed
June 2003HailMorrill-no account filed
April 2002HailMorrill-no account filed
September 2002HailMorrill-no account filed
May 2001HailMorrill-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMorrill-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Morrill-no account filed
May 1997HailMorrill-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMorrill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Sun Springs2.8 miles17
Hamlin3.5 miles17
Fairview6.3 miles17
Padonia6.9 miles17
Reserve7.7 miles17
Hiawatha9.8 miles18
Fidelity10.8 miles17
Powhattan12.0 miles17

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 MorrillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2662033The 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 472771. 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.