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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.

Offerle within Edwards County

Population over time

2 figures

Offerle 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.

YearPeople Change
2010199
2020179-20 (-10%)

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

15 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdwards County25
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdwards County24
6 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdwards County21
28 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
21 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdwards County18
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
18 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service5
23 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edwards County

Storms near this place

57 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindOfferle$40,000Machine shed and barn blown down by straight line wind.
May 2025HailOfferle-Report was from social media. Nickel to Quarter size hail in Offerle.
May 2024Heavy RainOfferle-Rainfall report of 1.70 inches.
May 2019Tornado (EF2)Offerle-This tornado moved out of Ford County at 2048 LST.
April 2017HailOfferle-The hail was mostly pea to dime sized with a few larger stones observed.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindOfferle-Dime sized hail accompanied the wind.
November 2012HailOfferle-Winds were also gusting to 60 MPH as the hail fell.
July 2010Heavy RainOfferle-Excessive rainfall of 10.00 was reported and this caused widespread county road flooding.
May 2008Tornado (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 2007Heavy RainOfferle-Five inches of rain fell overnight.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOfferle-A three sided shed was blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOfferle-Some tree damage was reported.
July 2005HailOfferle-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 2004Thunderstorm WindOfferle-Measured by a school weather lab
May 2002Tornado (F0)Offerle-This tornado moved west and crossed into Ford county.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Offerle-This tornado moved south into Kiowa county.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Offerle-Roof damage to one home. Five inch tree limbs broken.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOfferle-Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
May 1995HailOfferle-Water rose fast everywhere covering some roads.
May 2024HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2024HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2024HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2020HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2018HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2017HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2014HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2011HailOfferle-no account filed
April 2007HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2007HailOfferle-no account filed
April 2006HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2006HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2006HailOfferle-no account filed
August 2006HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
August 2005HailOfferle-no account filed
August 2005HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2003HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2003HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2003HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
May 2002HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2002HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
May 2002HailOfferle-no account filed
June 2002HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2002HailOfferle-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
March 1998HailOfferle-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
May 1996HailOfferle-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
June 1996HailOfferle-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed
March 1995HailOfferle-no account filed
March 1995HailOfferle-no account filed
March 1995HailOfferle-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOfferle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edwards 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
Ardell3.3 miles18
Kinsley8.2 miles18
Hodges10.6 miles19
Williams (historical)12.9 miles18
Nettleton14.2 miles19
Centerview16.2 miles18
Lewis16.5 miles19
Fellsburg21.0 miles18

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 OfferleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2122532The 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.