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.
Population over time
2 figuresOdin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 101 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -14 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Russell quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Claflin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
| 8 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15004 |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15010 |
| 23 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15008 |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Barton County | 17008 |
| 13 February 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 290 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Odin | $60,000 | The tornado caused some tree damage and minor damage to several barns west of Odin. Several power lines were also blown down. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | $2,500 | High winds caused tree damage as well as damaging a machine shed in Odin. This report was relayed via KAKE News. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | - | A shed was blown around 100 yards & doors were blown off a barn. Tree damage also occurred at this location. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | - | Law enforcement reported the gust. |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Odin | - | Street flooding. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | - | Several trees blown down. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | - | Numerous large tree limbs blown down. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Odin | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redwing | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hitschmann | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Claflin | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Farhman | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Beaver | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Dubuque | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hoisington | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| South Hoisington | 9.8 miles | 13 |
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 Odin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5326621 | 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 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.





