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Olsburg, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Blue Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66520. The Survey maps it on the Olsburg quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.

Olsburg within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Olsburg fell from 219 to 218 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
2010219
2020218-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Olsburg between 2014 and 2019, burning about 4,379 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
3 July 2018Fireworks8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1176020
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1175946
15 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service1852124
31 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service1175898
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1175897
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,000 acresPottawatomie CountySHANNON CREEK
18 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPottawatomie CountyROUNDTREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olsburg in 62 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 36 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindOlsburg$60,000no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindOlsburg$2,000The fire department garage door was pushed out along with part of the wall. The fire chief also reported large bales of hay that were pushed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOlsburg$2,000no account filed
May 2025HailOlsburg-Ping pong ball size hail near Olsburg.
May 2024HailOlsburg-Quarter size hail near Olsburg.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Lots of tree damage across the town with large tree limbs downed and tree trunks snapped. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023HailOlsburg-Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Several 12 inch diameter tree limbs down, per NWS storm survey on June 12. Winds estimated at 75 mph.
June 2022HailOlsburg-Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2020HailOlsburg-Quarter sized hail reported covering the ground.
March 2017HailOlsburg-Dime to nickel size hail with a few quarter sized stones.
October 2017Tornado (EF1)Olsburg-Three sided building blown over, tin roof blown off barn, trees to the west of Shannon Creek road had tops blown off. Relayed by Emergency Management. The small tornado then caused minor damage to trees and outbuildings approximately one mile NNE.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Tree limbs were reported down, sizes were unknown. Damage was also reported to outbuilding.
April 2016HailOlsburg-Covering the ground.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Numerous tree 2 feet in diameter were uprooted.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Wind gusts estimated.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Wind gusts caused a 10 inch diameter tree to come down.
June 2013HailOlsburg-Small limbs down as well.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Trained spotters from across Pottawatomie County reported 60 to 65 mph wind gusts. The only reported damage was in Wamego where a few 6 inch tree limbs broke.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Outflow from a nearby thunderstorm produced 60 mph winds near Olsburg.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Trained spotters reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts across Pottawatomie County.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-Small tree limbs up to three inches in diameter reported down.
June 2020HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2014HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2012HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2011HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2011HailOlsburg-no account filed
May 2010HailOlsburg-no account filed
March 2009HailOlsburg-no account filed
March 2009HailOlsburg-no account filed
March 2009HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2006HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2006HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2006HailOlsburg-no account filed
April 2006HailOlsburg-no account filed
May 2005HailOlsburg-no account filed
May 2005HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2005HailOlsburg-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
July 2004HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004HailOlsburg-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
July 2003HailOlsburg-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
October 2002HailOlsburg-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
August 2000HailOlsburg-no account filed
August 2000HailOlsburg-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOlsburg-no account filed
October 2000HailOlsburg-no account filed
May 1999HailOlsburg-no account filed
May 1998LightningOlsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Fostoria5.7 miles20
Westmoreland11.0 miles17
Blaine12.2 miles17
Flush13.2 miles16
Wheaton16.4 miles15
Swamp Angel17.8 miles18
Saint George19.5 miles18
Louisville20.2 miles16

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 OlsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673393The 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 484938. 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.