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Niotaze, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Little Caney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67355. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Niotaze within Chautauqua County

On record in Niotaze

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Niotaze grew from 82 to 90 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
201082
202090+8 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Niotaze between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,440 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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/undetermined35 acresKansas Forest Service1530034
17 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMontgomery County1730025
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1830027
16 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service79
11 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMontgomery County1730016
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1630012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Niotaze: 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
Chetopa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niotaze in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
March 2024HailNiotaze-Public report of nickel sized hail in Niotaze.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-A few power poles were broken along with some tree limbs being blown out of some trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-One tree was uprooted and a tree limb fell on a truck at a location nearby.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-Two to three barns with roofs blown off along with numerous large trees being snapped were blocking roads. Most of the damage was south of Niotaze and west of Caney.
October 2014Flash FloodNiotaze-There was street flooding and road washouts between Chautauqua and Elgin. The Little Caney river was out of the banks near Niotaze and flooding the side roads. Flooding was also noted on both sides of Highway 166.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-A tree was blown down onto a garage and several branches were also downed.
July 2009Flash FloodNiotaze-Prolonged very heavy rainfall during the predawn hours on the 21st resulted in numerous rural roads being flooded across the county. Rainfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches occurred across mainly the eastern two-thirds of the county. Property damage amounts are unknown.
May 2016HailNiotaze-no account filed
August 2009HailNiotaze-no account filed
May 2008HailNiotaze-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-no account filed
October 1998Thunderstorm WindNiotaze-no account filed
May 1997HailNiotaze-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Peru4.4 miles13
Jonesburg (historical)6.8 miles13
Monett6.9 miles13
Chautauqua9.4 miles13
Sedan9.9 miles14
Hale11.3 miles13
Grafton11.3 miles14
Elgin14.7 miles14

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 NiotazeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357194The 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 469139. 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.

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.