Onaga, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66521. It stands on Hise Creek. The Survey maps it on the Onaga quadrangle. 679 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
On record in Onaga
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Pottawatomie County Fair Pavilionlisted 2004
Teske Farmsteadlisted 2009
Vermillion Creek Tributary Stone Arch Bridgelisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresOnaga fell from 702 to 679 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 | 702 | |
| 2020 | 679 | -23 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Onaga quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Onaga between 2005 and 2018, burning about 284 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-39 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1175929 |
| 6 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-12 |
| 6 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-11 |
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-10 |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-19 |
| 27 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-15 |
| 21 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-16 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onaga in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Onaga | $10,000 | Water over many rural roads due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | $2,000 | Strong winds blew the roof off a shed several hundred feet. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Onaga | $1,000 | Torrential rains brought about 6 inches of fast flowing water across roads in the area. |
| May 2000 | Lightning | Onaga | $1,000 | Lightning did minor damage to a home near Onaga. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Onaga | - | This is the first segment of an EF-2 tornado that began in Pottawatomie County, moved northeast into Jackson County and continued northeast into Nemaha County before dissipating. This is segment 1 of 3 for the tornado path. In Pottawatomie County the tornado touched down near a farmstead south of Havensville and compromised some of the external walls of a residence as well as tearing a large portion of the roof off of the residence. Extensive damage was noted to outbuildings and trees near the residence. The tornado continued northeast damaging mainly rural areas of northeastern Pottawatomie County damaging trees and power poles. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Onaga | - | Law enforcement reported a brief tornado touchdown at 4:48 pm cst 2 miles east of Onaga. The tornado caused no damage. It was an F0 tornado with a path width of 50 yards or less and was on the ground for a tenth of a mile. The tornado formed from a parent supercell thunderstorm. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Onaga | - | Flash flooding resulted from heavy rains. A man was rescued from a vehicle that became stalled in flood waters 5 miles south of Onaga. Flash flooding also occurred in Wamego and other locations in the county doing extensive crop damage and flooding several roads and businesses. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Onaga | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Havensville | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Wheaton | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Aikins | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Laclede | 10.1 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Clere | 10.2 miles | 16 | |
| Blaine | 12.4 miles | 17 | |
| Emmett | 13.9 miles | 16 |
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 Onaga | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229084 | 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 476116. 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.







