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Odin, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cheyenne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67525. The Survey maps it on the Claflin quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,841 feet above sea level.

Odin within Barton County

Population over time

2 figures

Odin fell from 101 to 87 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
2010101
202087-14 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Odin between 2015 and 2020, burning about 194 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
20 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1
8 March 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service15004
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service15010
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15008
18 February 2017Debris and open burning80 acresBarton County17008
13 February 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service290

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odin in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Odin$60,000The tornado caused some tree damage and minor damage to several barns west of Odin. Several power lines were also blown down.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOdin$2,500High winds caused tree damage as well as damaging a machine shed in Odin. This report was relayed via KAKE News.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOdin-A shed was blown around 100 yards & doors were blown off a barn. Tree damage also occurred at this location.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindOdin-Law enforcement reported the gust.
May 1999Flash FloodOdin-Street flooding.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOdin-Several trees blown down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOdin-Numerous large tree limbs blown down.
May 2012HailOdin-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOdin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Redwing4.2 miles13
Hitschmann4.3 miles13
Claflin4.9 miles13
Farhman5.9 miles13
Beaver6.0 miles13
Dubuque9.0 miles13
Hoisington9.6 miles13
South Hoisington9.8 miles13

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 OdinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5326621The 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 475528. 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.