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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.

North Newton within Harvey County

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

Population over time

2 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,759
20201,814+55 (+3%)

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

95 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1502539
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHarvey County1702409
28 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHarvey County1702393
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresHarvey County1701879
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1916
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1921
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harvey County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton1 hurt, $25,000Tractor-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 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton$10,000Power lines were blown down by 50 to 60 mph winds.
June 2010Flash FloodNorth Newton$5,000Overnight 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 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton$3,000A machine shed was destroyed.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton$1,000Winds estimated at 60 mph carried a sheet metal shed about 25 to 50 yards, and also downed a 4 inch diameter tree limb.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton-Vehicle accident near US-50 interchange due to storm.
June 2022Heavy RainNorth Newton-A Cocorahs observer 3 miles west northwest of Newton reported 1.58 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton-The roof of a machine shed was torn off.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton-There were multiple reports of trees downed or uprooted just northeast of Halstead. The report was received via Twitter.
June 2015Flash FloodNorth Newton-Several roads had to be barricaded across the city due to high water. Travel on the roads is impossible and dangerous.
December 2015FloodNorth Newton-Many reports of high water over the low water crossings across the county. A few county roads were closed for this reason.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Newton-Some tree limbs were blown out of trees.
May 2024HailNorth Newton-no account filed
April 2020HailNorth Newton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harvey 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
Newton1.8 miles16
Sand Creek3.0 miles16
Zimmerdale3.2 miles18
McGraw4.3 miles16
Walton5.7 miles16
Hesston6.4 miles15
Van Arsdale6.6 miles15
McLains6.7 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 North NewtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2662374The 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.