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.
Population over time
2 figuresNetawaka 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 143 | |
| 2020 | 139 | -4 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Netawaka quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1509002 |
| 8 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Horton Agency | KT-25 |
| 7 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Horton Agency | OLD BARN |
| 17 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1507002 |
| 9 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1805002 |
| 13 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 43 |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Jackson County | 27 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Jackson County | 1703002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2023 | Hail | Netawaka | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | Several large tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter broken. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Netawaka | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Netawaka | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | Tree one foot in diameter split in half, photo received via social media. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Netawaka | - | Report of a brief tornado touchdown that lasted around one minute. No damage. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | Wind gust estimated. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Netawaka | - | Reports of moving water over the roadway on K9 between Whiting and Netawaka. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Netawaka | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Netawaka | - | Measured quarter size hail reprt relayed to law enforcement officials. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | A one foot diameter tree was blown over. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | 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 1995 | Hail | Netawaka | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Netawaka | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiting | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Holton | 9.5 miles | 18 | |
| Circleville | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Carbon (historical) | 10.8 miles | 18 | |
| Birmingham | 13.5 miles | 18 | |
| Soldier | 13.8 miles | 17 | |
| Denison | 15.3 miles | 18 | |
| Mayetta | 18.2 miles | 17 |
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 Netawaka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673268 | 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 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.








