North Newton, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67117. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. 1,814 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,437 feet above sea level.
On record in North Newton
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 3 records
Bethel College Administration Buildinglisted 1972- David Goerz Houselisted 2002
- Wirkler-Krehbiel Houselisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Newton grew from 1,759 to 1,814 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 | 1,759 | |
| 2020 | 1,814 | +55 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1889 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Newton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Newton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
95 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of North Newton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1502539 |
| 5 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Harvey County | 1702409 |
| 28 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Harvey County | 1702393 |
| 6 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Harvey County | 1701879 |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1916 |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1921 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Newton in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | 1 hurt, $25,000 | Tractor-trailer overturned on I-135 near the North Broadway and First Street exits. The driver's injuries were minor. In addition, one transformer caught fire. It is unknown whether the blaze was caused by lightning or severe thunderstorm winds. Newton Kansan contributed greatly to this narrative. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | $10,000 | Power lines were blown down by 50 to 60 mph winds. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | North Newton | $5,000 | Overnight rainfall caused flooding along Sand Creek and Emma creek through the town of Newton. This caused numerous roads to close across town. Three to five inches of rainfall fell overnight. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | $3,000 | A machine shed was destroyed. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | $1,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph carried a sheet metal shed about 25 to 50 yards, and also downed a 4 inch diameter tree limb. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | - | Vehicle accident near US-50 interchange due to storm. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | North Newton | - | A Cocorahs observer 3 miles west northwest of Newton reported 1.58 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | - | The roof of a machine shed was torn off. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | - | There were multiple reports of trees downed or uprooted just northeast of Halstead. The report was received via Twitter. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | North Newton | - | Several roads had to be barricaded across the city due to high water. Travel on the roads is impossible and dangerous. |
| December 2015 | Flood | North Newton | - | Many reports of high water over the low water crossings across the county. A few county roads were closed for this reason. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Newton | - | Some tree limbs were blown out of trees. |
| May 2024 | Hail | North Newton | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | North Newton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Sand Creek | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Zimmerdale | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| McGraw | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Walton | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Hesston | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Van Arsdale | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| McLains | 6.7 miles | 14 |
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 North Newton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2662374 | 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 478000. 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.






