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.
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 394 | |
| 2020 | 414 | +20 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Strawn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Coffey County | 353 |
| 9 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | OIL WELL |
| 9 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 832 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | WILLIAMSON |
| 2 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 885 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | W KENNEDY |
| 1 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 369 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | WILLIAMSON |
| 8 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | KENNEDY CRK EAST |
| 7 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | KENNEDY COVE |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,078 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | EAST KENNEDY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuerfele Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharpe | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ottumwa | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Burlington | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Jacobs Creek Landing | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Halls Summit | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Beto Junction | 10.2 miles | 18 | |
| Waverly | 11.7 miles | 17 | |
| Lebo | 12.2 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 New Strawn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2901439 | 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 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.








