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New Albany, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fall River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66736. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

New Albany within Wilson County

Population over time

2 figures

New Albany grew from 56 to 57 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
201056
202057+1 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of New Albany between 2015 and 2018, burning about 2,465 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3

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
7 April 2018Debris and open burning750 acresKansas Forest Service2018010
7 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresElk County17048
7 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500055
5 April 2018Debris and open burning640 acresKansas Forest Service2018008
4 April 2018Debris and open burning120 acresKansas Forest Service1835
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service1500060
5 March 2016Arson/incendiarism80 acresKansas Forest Service1600034
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKansas Forest Service1600035

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Albany in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Albany1 killed, $510,000A mobile home was blown 40 feet and ended up wrapped around a large tree and was totally demolished. A 54 year old woman of the home was found in the wreckage and died. A church in town was totally destroyed and also the town post office was a total loss after it collapsed. Numerous trees were also down across town.
June 2008Flash FloodNew Albany$20,000Heavy rainfall trained across the county. Rainfall amounts ranged from 3.17 inches in Neodesha to 5.00 inches in Fredonia. Quite a few roads were washed out causing a railroad boxcar to spill over in Neodesha. A water rescue also occurred near New Albany when a car was washed off the road. The woman was rescued unharmed.
September 2018FloodNew Albany$100Several roads were closed across the county.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Albany-This was reported as an estimated gust.
May 2019FloodNew Albany-Local roads were flooded, but no details were provided.
August 2017Heavy RainNew Albany-Rainfall since 5 pm.
March 2015HailNew Albany-The golf ball-sized hail covered the ground.
April 2009Flash FloodNew Albany-Numerous slow moving thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall during the afternoon hours of the 27th across mainly southern portions of Wilson county. Widespread 3 to 5 inch rainfall amounts likely occurred per radar estimates, producing both rural and city road closures due to high water. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unknown.
May 2008Flash FloodNew Albany-Several county roads were reported under water.
May 2008FloodNew Albany-Localized flooding of low lying roads occurred.
April 2024HailNew Albany-no account filed
April 2024HailNew Albany-no account filed
May 2022HailNew Albany-no account filed
May 2022HailNew Albany-no account filed
June 2011HailNew Albany-no account filed
April 2011HailNew Albany-no account filed
April 2010HailNew Albany-no account filed
May 2010HailNew Albany-no account filed
August 2009HailNew Albany-no account filed
May 2007HailNew Albany-no account filed
March 2003HailNew Albany-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Albany-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Albany-no account filed
June 2001HailNew Albany-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Albany-no account filed
June 1999HailNew Albany-no account filed
June 1999HailNew Albany-no account filed
June 1996HailNew Albany-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilson 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
Fredonia6.4 miles24
Buxton8.3 miles16
Coyville8.4 miles24
Benedict Junction9.3 miles24
Benedict10.7 miles24
Guilford11.8 miles23
Middletown11.8 miles24
Roper12.6 miles22

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 New AlbanyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1757480The 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 475073. 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.