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Neosho Rapids, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66864. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Neosho Rapids within Lyon County

Population over time

2 figures

Neosho Rapids fell from 265 to 229 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
2010265
2020229-36 (-14%)

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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Neosho Rapids between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,646 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 were 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLyon County2538
1 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeK130CIG
26 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2058
1 July 1997Debris and open burning45 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeWILSON
29 June 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeSLAYMAKER
14 May 2015Arson/incendiarism44 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeKUWAIT PRAIRIE
1 May 2001Debris and open burning23 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeOLD BLUE
8 April 2009Debris and open burning33 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeOLD BLUE SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neosho Rapids in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 18 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2007FloodNeosho Rapids$100,000Flooding continues into early July. Some roads are closed especially along the lower reaches of the Neosho River near Neosho Rapids.
June 2007FloodNeosho Rapids$80,000The Marais des Cygnes River reaches moderate flooding stage due to persistent heavy rains. Flooding continues into July.
September 2023HailNeosho Rapids-Golf ball sized hail reported.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
September 2022HailNeosho Rapids-Golf ball sized hail reported.
September 2022HailNeosho Rapids-Quarter sized hail. Trees stripped of their leaves.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Quarter sized hail and trees stripped of their leaves.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Delayed report from I35.
May 2020HailNeosho Rapids-Location experienced about 12 minutes of golf ball to baseball sized hail.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Three inch diameter limb snapped.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Neosho Rapids-Widespread wind damage from straight line thunderstorm winds|extended from southern Lyon county northeast into Osage county.|about 2 miles west of Neosho rapids, a train derailed as a result|of severe thunderstorm winds. Wind speeds at this point were|estimated to be 75-85 mph. About 3 miles northeast of the train,|a short lived tornado occurred producing ef-1 damage to a|farmstead north of Neosho rapids. More wind damage to trees and|Out buildings occurred northeast across Lyon county into Osage|County.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Several large trees down including a 100 year old healthy elm tree snapped at the base of the tree trunk. Damage possibly the result of a tornado.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Wind gusts estimated around 60 to 70 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-Several power poles were damaged.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2009HailNeosho Rapids-Measured 60 mph wind gusts with 4 inch diameter limbs downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-360 square foot metal doors blown onto the top of a shed.
May 2014HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
April 2008HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
June 2008HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2004HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
March 2003HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
May 2003HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
March 2002HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
May 2002HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2000HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2000HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
September 2000HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
May 1999HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed
March 1997HailNeosho Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Hartford4.6 miles16
Lang7.9 miles17
Emporia Junction9.3 miles18
Emporia10.3 miles18
Reading10.5 miles14
Berkeley Hills11.1 miles18
Olpe11.9 miles16
Merrick13.6 miles18

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 RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q592502The 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 477546. 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.