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.
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 56 | |
| 2020 | 57 | +1 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1938 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS New Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 750 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018010 |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Elk County | 17048 |
| 7 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500055 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 640 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018008 |
| 4 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1835 |
| 10 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500060 |
| 5 March 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1600034 |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1600035 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Albany | 1 killed, $510,000 | A 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 2008 | Flash Flood | New Albany | $20,000 | Heavy 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 2018 | Flood | New Albany | $100 | Several roads were closed across the county. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Albany | - | This was reported as an estimated gust. |
| May 2019 | Flood | New Albany | - | Local roads were flooded, but no details were provided. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | New Albany | - | Rainfall since 5 pm. |
| March 2015 | Hail | New Albany | - | The golf ball-sized hail covered the ground. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | New 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 2008 | Flash Flood | New Albany | - | Several county roads were reported under water. |
| May 2008 | Flood | New Albany | - | Localized flooding of low lying roads occurred. |
| April 2024 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | New Albany | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | New Albany | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fredonia | 6.4 miles | 24 | |
| Buxton | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Coyville | 8.4 miles | 24 | |
| Benedict Junction | 9.3 miles | 24 | |
| Benedict | 10.7 miles | 24 | |
| Guilford | 11.8 miles | 23 | |
| Middletown | 11.8 miles | 24 | |
| Roper | 12.6 miles | 22 |
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 Albany | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1757480 | 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 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.













