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New Cambria, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Cambria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67470. It stands on Saline River. The Survey maps it on the New Cambria quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

New Cambria within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

New Cambria fell from 126 to 106 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
2010126
2020106-20 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

33 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of New Cambria between 2015 and 2018, burning about 204 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2228
2 September 2017Smoking5.0 acresSaline County72
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service64
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service66
22 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSaline County1636
6 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSaline County49
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service33
4 April 2015Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

54 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Cambria in 54 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 25 hail, 11 heavy rain, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F1)New Cambria$70,000On the afternoon of April 6th, 2006 an F1 tornado touched down 5 miles northeast of New Cambria in Saline county. The tornado struck a homestead where it caused 70 thousand dollars in damage. The tornado was 75 yards wide and tracked for 200 yards.
September 2022HailNew Cambria$5,000The hail was reported by a driver on Interstate 70. Damage was noted to the vehicle.
April 2025HailNew Cambria-KWCH report of golf ball sized hail.
April 2025HailNew Cambria-KWCH relayed a picture sent in by a viewer of two inch hail.
July 2025FloodNew Cambria-Flooding from excess runoff in the smaller streams and creeks feeding into the Smoky Hill River inundated some roads in the vicinity of Old Highway 40 around New Cambria. This included water over Donmyer Road between Old Highway 40 and Country Club Road.
March 2024HailNew Cambria-While hail was mostly small, a few hailstones were up to quarter size near New Cambria.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-This wind gusts was measured by a home weather station.
July 2022Heavy RainNew Cambria-A cocorahs observer reported 3.06 inches in 24 hours.
July 2022Heavy RainNew Cambria-A cocorahs observer reported 4.70 inches in 24 hours.
July 2022Heavy RainNew Cambria-A cocorahs observer reported 3.23 inches in 24 hours.
July 2022Heavy RainNew Cambria-A Cocorahs observer east of Salina reported 3.10 inches in 24 hours.
May 2021Heavy RainNew Cambria-Personal weather station reporting rainfall of 5.86 inches that had fallen since midnight.
May 2021Heavy RainNew Cambria-Rainfall of 4.21 inches since midnight.
May 2021Heavy RainNew Cambria-A personal weather station reported 4.09 inches since midnight.
May 2021Heavy RainNew Cambria-A personal weather station reported 5.45 inches since midnight.
September 2021Heavy RainNew Cambria-A Cocorahs station reported 3.00 inches of heavy rainfall.
May 2020Heavy RainNew Cambria-Observer measured 3.28 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
July 2020Heavy RainNew Cambria-This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.69 inches.
May 2019FloodNew Cambria-A report was received, via Twitter, that Saline County ordered power to be shut down in the southwest corner of New Cambria due to flooding.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-No damage was reported.
May 2018HailNew Cambria-A storm chaser reported quarter to golf ball sized hail.
April 2016HailNew Cambria-No damage was reported.
April 2016HailNew Cambria-No damage was reported.
April 2016HailNew Cambria-A storm chaser also reported a wall cloud at the same location.
April 2016HailNew Cambria-No damage was reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-Power poles were blown down near New Cambria.
December 2016Tornado (EF0)New Cambria-A very brief tornado which was likely a gustnado on the leading edge of a squall line produced minimal damage to a barn roof and trees.
May 2015HailNew Cambria-Winds estimated at 60 mph were also reported along I-70.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)New Cambria-Very brief touchdown in open country.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)New Cambria-All surrounding buildings destroyed with sheet metal debris lofted and tossed northeast into a wheat field. Hay baler rolled over on its side. The roof was lifted off the house with major structural cracks visible on interior walls and ceiling through out the house, siding was striped from home in a few areas along with several puncture holes from flying debris. A jagged piece of wood lodged into side of home. This tornado moved into Ottawa county which is Topeka's responsibility.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)New Cambria-Thin rope like tornado touched down in an open field just to the east of town and moved to the north.
April 2010FloodNew Cambria-Several secondary roads were impassable across western portions of Saline county due to flooding. Brookville in western portions of the county reported 3.50 inches of rain. Additionally, roads in the Solomon area were closed due to high water. Any potential property or crop damage that may have occurred is unknown.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)New Cambria-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)New Cambria-The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
July 2003HailNew Cambria-Co-op observer.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-Relayed by WFO Topeka.
April 2025HailNew Cambria-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2024HailNew Cambria-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-no account filed
September 2022HailNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2020HailNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2020HailNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2020HailNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2019HailNew Cambria-no account filed
June 2013HailNew Cambria-no account filed
June 2008HailNew Cambria-no account filed
February 2007HailNew Cambria-no account filed
February 2007HailNew Cambria-no account filed
May 2004HailNew Cambria-no account filed
April 2002HailNew Cambria-no account filed
June 2001HailNew Cambria-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Cambria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Salina6.2 miles16
Kipp7.1 miles16
Trenton7.6 miles16
Shipton9.7 miles16
Mentor10.9 miles16
Marydel12.3 miles16
Gypsum12.7 miles17
Phillips Village (historical)13.0 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 New CambriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1941049The 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 476643. 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.