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Narka, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Albion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66960. The Survey maps it on the Narka quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,585 feet above sea level.

Narka within Republic County

On record in Narka

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

Population over time

2 figures

Narka fell from 94 to 81 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
201094
202081-13 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Narka between 2006 and 2018, burning about 72 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service1800003
18 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreRepublic County1700005
15 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service1800002
11 February 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500005
19 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500002

Every fire recorded in Republic County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Narka in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 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 2001Tornado (F0)Narka$45,000A tornado formed southwest of Narka and moved northeast doing some damage to the community of Narka before crossing into Nebraska.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNarka$6,000Strong winds blew the roof off of a barn and damaged several outbuildings at 2 farms.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNarka$5,000Large tree limbs were blown in this area by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Narka-Damage survey noted damage to main grain elevator in town with a sporadic damage path noted to the southeast to trees limbs with lack of access further southeast unable to determine how much further southeast path occurred. Area primarily fallow field or newly planted corn so few DI to see from ground around end point.
October 2018HailNarka-Hail up to the size of quarters reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNarka-Estimated wind gust report.
October 2016HailNarka-Golf ball sized hail covering the ground.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Narka-EM provided information of tree limbs down southwest of Narka and radar corroborated spotter reports of a brief tornado southwest of Narka. No other damage was reported so this tornado was likely a brief touchdown.
April 2009HailNarka-Nickel size hail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNarka-At least one tree was blown down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Narka-A tornado touched down east of Narka and traveled a short distance before dissipating.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNarka-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Narka-A tornado touched down near Narka and traveled 1 mile before dissipating.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Narka-A tornado touched down briefly in open country.
May 2004HailNarka-no account filed
May 2002HailNarka-no account filed
April 2001HailNarka-no account filed
October 2000HailNarka-no account filed
August 2000HailNarka-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNarka-no account filed
September 1997HailNarka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Republic 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
Munden6.8 miles13
Tabor8.6 miles13
Haworth9.6 miles13
Cuba11.0 miles13
Belleville14.4 miles13
Agenda17.4 miles13
Wayne18.0 miles13
Rydal18.2 miles13

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 NarkaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901303The 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 472612. 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.