Morrowville, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66958. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morrowville quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.
On record in Morrowville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Lowe Center School-District 115listed 2014
Population over time
2 figuresMorrowville fell from 155 to 114 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 | 155 | |
| 2020 | 114 | -41 (-26%) |
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.
- 1893 USGS Washington quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Morrowville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Morrowville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres 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 | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 40718 |
| 5 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1814 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 62 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrowville in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 45 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | $2,000 | Trained spotters and Law enforcement officers reported 70 to 80 mph wind gusts across Washington County. In Washington numerous trees were uprooted, which brought down several power lines. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Morrowville | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Morrowville | - | Half dollar size hail, also estimating 50 mph winds. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Morrowville | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Trees of 8 to 12 inches in diameter uprooted. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Walls caved in on empty grain bins, tin roof blown off shed, utility trailer rolled. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Damage to outbuildings and several 3 inch tree limbs down. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Morrowville | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Report of multiple large trees down. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Dead trees knocked over, 12 inches in diameter. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Morrowville | - | Wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph also reported. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | A pole barn was blown over along with 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs snapped. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Morrowville | - | Winds estimated around 40 mph. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | A trained spotter near Morrowville reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Morrowville | - | This report was relayed via the Sheriff's Office. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Morrowville | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Morrowville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enosdale | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Washington | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Haddam | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Strawberry | 10.2 miles | 13 | |
| Linn | 12.3 miles | 13 | |
| Greenleaf | 13.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hollenberg | 13.4 miles | 15 | |
| Brantford | 13.5 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 Morrowville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1917855 | 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 472873. 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.





