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Oak Hill, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oakland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67432. The Survey maps it on the Longford quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

Oak Hill within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Hill grew from 24 to 24 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
201024
2020240 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oak Hill in 2017, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use15 acresClay County4

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 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
June 2011HailOak Hill$500A west facing window on the house was broken.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-Tree damage north of Oak Hill with medium sized branches down.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Oak Hill-A storm chaser reported seeing a brief tornado touch down in open field before losing sight of it due to rain. No damage was reported in the vicinity of the sighting as it was in open pasture. The track and time is estimated based on radar and chaser report.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-Spotter estimated winds around 60 to 65 mph.
May 2018Tornado (EF1)Oak Hill-A tornado developed just northeast of Oak Hill and traveled along rural areas that were sparsely populated, doing damage to a farmstead including a few sheds and cedar trees but mostly open pasture.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-Estimated wind gust.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-A trained spotter near Oak Hill reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2010Flash FloodOak Hill-Water was reported over 8th road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-Public and law enforcement officers reported 60 mph wind gusts near the cities of Oak Hill and Wakefield.
September 2009FloodOak Hill-Thunderstorms producing heavy rains produced flooding at the intersection of Cherokee road and 8th street. This intersection had 6 to 12 inches of water ponded in spots.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Oak Hill-Several homes and outbuildings were damaged when a tornado touched down northwest of Oak Hill. Porches, roofs, and windows were observed to have sustained the most damage at several of the residences. At one farm, the center pivot of an irrigation system was knocked over, as were several trees and power lines. One home was deemed a total loss, two camping trailers were completely destroyed, and four outbuildings were completely destroyed.
August 2010HailOak Hill-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-no account filed
June 2006HailOak Hill-no account filed
June 1999HailOak Hill-no account filed
June 1998HailOak Hill-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Longford5.4 miles14
Browndale7.7 miles14
Ladysmith8.5 miles14
Idana8.6 miles14
Industry12.0 miles15
Clay Center14.5 miles14
Broughton (historical)16.1 miles14
Morganville16.8 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 Oak HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2914513The 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 476300. 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.