BlockNess City, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67560. The Survey maps it on the Ness City quadrangle. 1,329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,254 feet above sea level.
On record in Ness City
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 2 records
Lion Blocklisted 2008
Ness County Banklisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresNess City fell from 1,449 to 1,329 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 | 1,449 | |
| 2020 | 1,329 | -120 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1892 USGS Ness quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Ness quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Ness City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Larned quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
60 of 185 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ness City in 185 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 95 hail, 69 thunderstorm wind, 11 heavy rain, 7 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | $1,400,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Ness City | $1,200,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Ness City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | $15,000 | Damage was done to an irrigation sprinkler. A horse barn was lifted and blown over 25 foot high power line. |
| July 1996 | Hail | Ness City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | $7,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Ness City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | A public report of a 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | Rainfall of 2.90 inches was observed. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Ness City | - | Water was flowing across Road R. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Several limbs were broken by the high wind estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 75 MPH. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be near 65 MPH. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 70 MPH. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | A semi was blown over by the high wind. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ness City | - | The hail was mostly quarter sized. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Ness City | - | This tornado was observed southwest of Ness City but it moved east and may have produced some tree damage. The survey crew could not reach the area of possible tree damage with limited or no access. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 80 MPH. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Ness City | - | This apparently weak tornado moved south-southeast. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Ness City | - | Winds were also 50 to 55 MPH as the hail was falling. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Ness City | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Ness City | - | Flooding was reported throughout the city. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Ness City | - | Most of the hail was smaller in size. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Ness City | - | The hail was soft. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | A large tree was blown down and power poles snapped in Ness City. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | The winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Large hale bales were blown off a semi trailer on highway 283. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Law enforcement estimated the wind at 70 mph. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ness City | - | The hail was accompanied by 60 mph winds. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ness City | - | The Sheriffs office reported quarter sized hail covering Highway 283 for a 3/4 mile long stretch. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | There was also pea to penny sized hail. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | The wind was measured at a KSNW weatherlab site. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | There was an unconfirmed report of 10 inches of rainfall overnight. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | Rainfall of 2.75 occurred in one hour. The tributary of the South Fork of the Walnut near the observers house was running full and strong. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | 4.80 inches of rain fell overnight. At a location 7w and 3n of Ness City the Walnut Creek was flowing where it had been dry for a "long" time. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | 3.00 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | 6.00 inches of rain fell overnight. However this amount was estimated since the gauge overflowed. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | 3.75 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| July 2006 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | Three inches of rain fell in a short time. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Two dead trees were blown down. A live 9 inch diameter tree branch was broken. Half inch diameter hail also occurred with the wind. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches broken. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Ness City | - | The funnel itself did not make contact but the debris cloud was visible during the tornadoes existence. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Ness City | - | This was another separate tornado with brief contact with the ground. |
| May 2004 | Heavy Rain | Ness City | - | Watershed ponds filled up and were overrunning. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Ten inch diameter tree limbs were blown down |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Two large cottonwood trees were blown over. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Ness City | - | Lasted 30 seconds. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Two inch branches broken. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ness City | - | Also had 79 mph wind which broke the equipment and the hail broke out windows. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Measured by wind equipment. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ness City | - | Four inch tree limbs down. |
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.
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 Ness City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233463 | 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 475581. 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.
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.