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.
Population over time
2 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 24 | |
| 2020 | 24 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Longford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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 use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Clay County | 4 |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Hail | Oak Hill | $500 | A west facing window on the house was broken. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | Tree damage north of Oak Hill with medium sized branches down. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | Spotter estimated winds around 60 to 65 mph. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| November 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | A trained spotter near Oak Hill reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Oak Hill | - | Water was reported over 8th road. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | Public and law enforcement officers reported 60 mph wind gusts near the cities of Oak Hill and Wakefield. |
| September 2009 | Flood | Oak 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 2008 | Tornado (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 2010 | Hail | Oak Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Oak Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Oak Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oak Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longford | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Browndale | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Ladysmith | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Idana | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| Industry | 12.0 miles | 15 | |
| Clay Center | 14.5 miles | 14 | |
| Broughton (historical) | 16.1 miles | 14 | |
| Morganville | 16.8 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 Oak Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2914513 | 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 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.





