Nortonville, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Norton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66060. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle. 601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNortonville fell from 637 to 601 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 | 637 | |
| 2020 | 601 | -36 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Nortonville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018102 |
| 21 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Jefferson County | 2017109 |
| 7 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015040 |
| 7 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015018 |
| 5 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018053 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015028 |
| 21 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018051 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
42 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nortonville in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 24 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | $5,000 | Three windows were broken on the west side of a home due to wind driven hail. Damage to the vinyle siding of the home was also reported. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | $3,000 | Hail cracked two windows at the home. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Nortonville | - | Report of ping pong ball size hail in Nortonville. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Part of metal roof blown off convenience store. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Estimated 60 mph gust. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Power lines down in Nortonville. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Power poles down near Nortonville. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Estimated wind gusts. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Law enforcement estimated the wind gust. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Power lines were reported down. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Nortonville | - | Also received 2.38 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Nortonville | - | Ditches are overflowing, water over roadways 2 miles east of Nortonville and in fields near house. Estimated rainfall of 4.82 inches. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Grain roof blown off and thrown approximately 600 feet. Time estimated by radar. |
| November 2013 | Hail | Nortonville | - | Wind gusts up to 50 mph. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Telephone pole blown down along with 2-3 inch diameter limbs. Resident estimated winds potentially as high as 100 mph. Other estimates of 90 mph. One tree three foot in diameter uprooted, another tree one foot in diameter uprooted on property. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | Emergency manager estimates winds of 60 mph. |
| November 2005 | Hail | Nortonville | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Nortonville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nortonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyle | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Winchester | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| Dunavant | 7.9 miles | 20 | |
| Valley Falls | 8.4 miles | 19 | |
| Half Mound | 8.7 miles | 20 | |
| Lake Shore | 12.9 miles | 22 | |
| Oskaloosa | 13.9 miles | 22 | |
| Ozawkie | 14.5 miles | 22 |
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 Nortonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2353960 | 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 478236. 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.







