Offerle, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trenton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67563. The Survey maps it on the Offerle quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,270 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOfferle fell from 199 to 179 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 | 199 | |
| 2020 | 179 | -20 (-10%) |
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.
- 1892 USGS Spearville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Spearville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Offerle quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Offerle between 2015 and 2018, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Edwards County | 25 |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Edwards County | 24 |
| 6 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Edwards County | 21 |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 21 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Edwards County | 18 |
| 9 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 18 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
| 23 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
57 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Offerle in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | $40,000 | Machine shed and barn blown down by straight line wind. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Offerle | - | Report was from social media. Nickel to Quarter size hail in Offerle. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Offerle | - | Rainfall report of 1.70 inches. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF2) | Offerle | - | This tornado moved out of Ford County at 2048 LST. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Offerle | - | The hail was mostly pea to dime sized with a few larger stones observed. |
| November 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | Dime sized hail accompanied the wind. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Offerle | - | Winds were also gusting to 60 MPH as the hail fell. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Offerle | - | Excessive rainfall of 10.00 was reported and this caused widespread county road flooding. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Offerle | - | This tornado moved out of Ford county at 22:19 CDT. It took down power poles, overturned pivot irrigation sprinklers and produced low end EF2 damage to outbuildings and a house. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Offerle | - | Five inches of rain fell overnight. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | A three sided shed was blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | Some tree damage was reported. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Offerle | - | Large hail caused 40 percent crop damage to 134,000 acres across the county. There was also some damage to farm dwellings and equipment. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | Measured by a school weather lab |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Offerle | - | This tornado moved west and crossed into Ford county. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Offerle | - | This tornado moved south into Kiowa county. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Offerle | - | Roof damage to one home. Five inch tree limbs broken. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | Three inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Offerle | - | Water rose fast everywhere covering some roads. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Offerle | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardell | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Kinsley | 8.2 miles | 18 | |
| Hodges | 10.6 miles | 19 | |
| Williams (historical) | 12.9 miles | 18 | |
| Nettleton | 14.2 miles | 19 | |
| Centerview | 16.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lewis | 16.5 miles | 19 | |
| Fellsburg | 21.0 miles | 18 |
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 Offerle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2122532 | 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 473539. 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.





