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New Strawn, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ottumwa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66839. The Survey maps it on the New Strawn quadrangle. 414 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

New Strawn within Coffey County

Population over time

2 figures

New Strawn grew from 394 to 414 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
2010394
2020414+20 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of New Strawn between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,756 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
18 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoffey County353
9 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeOIL WELL
9 May 2000Debris and open burning832 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeWILLIAMSON
2 May 1999Debris and open burning885 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeW KENNEDY
1 May 2001Debris and open burning369 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeWILLIAMSON
8 April 2006Debris and open burning160 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeKENNEDY CRK EAST
7 April 2007Debris and open burning25 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeKENNEDY COVE
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,078 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeEAST KENNEDY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Strawn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wuerfele Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Coffey 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
Sharpe3.0 miles16
Ottumwa3.2 miles16
Burlington4.7 miles17
Jacobs Creek Landing6.8 miles16
Halls Summit6.8 miles16
Beto Junction10.2 miles18
Waverly11.7 miles17
Lebo12.2 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 New StrawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901439The 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 477464. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.