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Netawaka, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Netawaka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66516. The Survey maps it on the Netawaka quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Netawaka within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Netawaka fell from 143 to 139 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
2010143
2020139-4 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Netawaka between 2002 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2

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 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1509002
8 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHorton AgencyKT-25
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHorton AgencyOLD BARN
17 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1507002
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1805002
13 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service43
20 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County27
18 March 2017Debris and open burning80 acresJackson County1703002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Netawaka in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Netawaka-A brief tornado was observed between Netawaka and Whiting around 7:38 PM. While photo evidence exists of the tornado kicking up dirt beneath its funnel, no damage was observed due to the brief and rural location. Exact location estimated based on photo and radar evidence.
May 2023HailNetawaka-Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-Several large tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter broken.
July 2023HailNetawaka-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2023HailNetawaka-Quarter sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-Tree one foot in diameter split in half, photo received via social media.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Netawaka-Report of a brief tornado touchdown that lasted around one minute. No damage.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-Wind gust estimated.
May 2013Flash FloodNetawaka-Reports of moving water over the roadway on K9 between Whiting and Netawaka.
September 2010Flash FloodNetawaka-Jackson County law enforcement relayed a citizen report of 6 to 10 inches of water flowing across Highway 9 at several locations between Netawaka and Whiting.
September 2007HailNetawaka-Measured quarter size hail reprt relayed to law enforcement officials.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-A one foot diameter tree was blown over.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-Straight line winds damaged several buildings, and knocked down trees and power lines in Netawaka. This storm had also produced a weak F0 tornado on the northwest side of Netawaka which caused no damage in the immediate area.
March 1995HailNetawaka-A winter storm produced four to six inches of snow across parts of central Kansas. Snowfall totals ranged from four inches in Reno and Barton Counties to five inches in Saline, McPherson, and Russell Counties.
May 2019HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2014HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2014HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2014HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2014HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2014HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 2010HailNetawaka-no account filed
August 2009HailNetawaka-no account filed
March 2006HailNetawaka-no account filed
June 2000HailNetawaka-no account filed
June 1998HailNetawaka-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNetawaka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Whiting5.7 miles18
Holton9.5 miles18
Circleville9.9 miles17
Carbon (historical)10.8 miles18
Birmingham13.5 miles18
Soldier13.8 miles17
Denison15.3 miles18
Mayetta18.2 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 NetawakaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673268The 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 473456. 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.