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Neosho Falls, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neosho Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66758. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neosho Falls quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Neosho Falls within Woodson County

Population over time

2 figures

Neosho Falls fell from 141 to 134 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
2010141
2020134-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Neosho Falls in 2015, burning about 120 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 2015Debris and open burning90 acresKansas Forest Service7
26 February 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresKansas Forest Service6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodson County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neosho Falls in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Flash FloodNeosho Falls$100A few low water crossings around Neosho Falls were covered in water.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindNeosho Falls-Wind gusts were estimated near 80 mph.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindNeosho Falls-Tree damage was reported in Neosho Falls.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindNeosho Falls-The emergency manager reported the gust.
February 2007Tornado (EF0)Neosho Falls-Two small rope tornadoes briefly touched down in an open field. No damage was reported.
May 2005Flash FloodNeosho Falls-Several rural county roads washed out between Piqua and Neosho Falls.
May 2018HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
June 2017HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
April 2010HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
June 2009HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
May 2004HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
June 1999HailNeosho Falls-no account filed
April 1994HailNeosho Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodson 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
Vernon5.6 miles18
Piqua5.8 miles17
Athens7.4 miles17
Hasty8.4 miles18
Durand10.8 miles18
Yates Center12.7 miles18
Cookville12.9 miles17
Rose16.2 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 Neosho FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2053991The 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 478098. 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.