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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.

Nortonville within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Nortonville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010637
2020601-36 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

19 since 2015

Regional 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018102
21 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJefferson County2017109
7 May 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015040
7 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015018
5 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018053
22 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2015028
21 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

42 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011HailNortonville$5,000Three 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 2011HailNortonville$3,000Hail cracked two windows at the home.
March 2024HailNortonville-Report of ping pong ball size hail in Nortonville.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Part of metal roof blown off convenience store.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Estimated 60 mph gust. Time estimated from radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Power lines down in Nortonville.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Power poles down near Nortonville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Estimated wind gusts.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Law enforcement estimated the wind gust.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Power lines were reported down.
June 2017HailNortonville-Also received 2.38 inches of rainfall.
August 2017Flash FloodNortonville-Ditches are overflowing, water over roadways 2 miles east of Nortonville and in fields near house. Estimated rainfall of 4.82 inches.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Grain roof blown off and thrown approximately 600 feet. Time estimated by radar.
November 2013HailNortonville-Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNortonville-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 2011Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Emergency manager estimates winds of 60 mph.
November 2005HailNortonville-Hail covered the ground.
October 2014HailNortonville-no account filed
August 2011HailNortonville-no account filed
September 2011HailNortonville-no account filed
May 2011HailNortonville-no account filed
May 2011HailNortonville-no account filed
April 2006HailNortonville-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed
April 2005HailNortonville-no account filed
July 2004HailNortonville-no account filed
July 2004HailNortonville-no account filed
May 2004HailNortonville-no account filed
May 2004HailNortonville-no account filed
May 2004HailNortonville-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudNortonville-no account filed
May 2003HailNortonville-no account filed
October 2002HailNortonville-no account filed
October 2002HailNortonville-no account filed
June 2001HailNortonville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed
June 1998HailNortonville-no account filed
June 1998HailNortonville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindNortonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Boyle5.4 miles20
Winchester7.4 miles20
Dunavant7.9 miles20
Valley Falls8.4 miles19
Half Mound8.7 miles20
Lake Shore12.9 miles22
Oskaloosa13.9 miles22
Ozawkie14.5 miles22

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 NortonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2353960The 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.