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Moscow, Kansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Moscow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67952. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,051 feet above sea level.

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Moscow within Stevens County

Population over time

2 figures

Moscow fell from 310 to 272 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
2010310
2020272-38 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moscow between 2011 and 2020, burning about 9,612 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
13 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresStevens County81317
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service704154
18 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9,600 acresKansas CountiesHASKELL COUNTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

60 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moscow in 90 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 65 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 1998Thunderstorm WindMoscow$50,000Irrigation sprinkler blown over and damaged.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMoscow$8,000A large metal storage gararge was blown down.
September 1993HailMoscow$5,000no account filed
June 2007HailMoscow$500A house window was broken out.
June 1994HailMoscow$500no account filed
June 2025HailMoscow-Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
June 2025HailMoscow-A public report of 1 inch hail.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMoscow-A mesonet site recorded a wind gust of 57 mph.
June 2024Heavy RainMoscow-Rainfall report of 1.90 inches.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts measured by a mesonet station.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Winds were estimated to be gusting to at least 60 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Estimated wind gust.
October 2018Heavy RainMoscow-Rainfall for the period was 3.0 inches.
May 2017HailMoscow-Ping pong ball to nearly golf ball sized hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Three inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
April 2015HailMoscow-The report was relayed by the Emergency Manager.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
September 2014Flash FloodMoscow-Water covered the streets of Moscow.
June 2007Funnel CloudMoscow-Three funnel clouds spotted nearly touching the ground but no contact was visible.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Moscow-Very brief contact was made with the ground.
June 2002HailMoscow-The hail fell in Cave.
June 2002HailMoscow-The hail fell at a location 2 miles west of Cave, in Stevens county.
June 2002HailMoscow-Hail fell in Cave.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Weeping willow tree uprooted.
June 2000HailMoscow-Golfball size hail fell off and on for 30 minutes, 4 se of Cave or 7 e of Moscow.
September 1999Flash FloodMoscow-Water was reported over several raods.
June 1999HailMoscow-Relayed by radio station.
August 1998HailMoscow-Windows broken out.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMoscow-450,000 bushel grain bin blown over and demolished. The demolished bin landed on an occupied pickup. The driver escaped injury by laying down in the passenger seat.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Three railroad boxcars blown off the tracks.
May 1995HailMoscow-Hail completely covering the ground.
May 1995HailMoscow-Hail completely covering the ground.
September 1994HailMoscow-The public reported a brief touchdown of a tornado five miles south of Moscow at 1935 CST.
September 1994Tornado (F0)Moscow-The public reported a brief touchdown of a tornado five miles south of Moscow at 1935 CST.
August 1993HailMoscow-Large trees and tree limbs were knocked down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Large trees and tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMoscow-no account filed
July 2023HailMoscow-no account filed
May 2020HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2020HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2020HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2019HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2018HailMoscow-no account filed
May 2017HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2017HailMoscow-no account filed
July 2015HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2014HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2014HailMoscow-no account filed
March 2013HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2010HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoscow-no account filed
July 2008HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2007HailMoscow-no account filed
May 2007HailMoscow-no account filed
July 2005HailMoscow-no account filed
July 2005HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2005HailMoscow-no account filed
April 2004HailMoscow-no account filed
April 2004HailMoscow-no account filed
June 2004HailMoscow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Cave4.2 miles9
Woods11.8 miles7
Hugoton12.8 miles7

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 MoscowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023006The 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 470580. 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.