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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.

Onaga within Pottawatomie County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Onaga 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.

YearPeople Change
2010702
2020679-23 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

16 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3

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
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-39
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1175929
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016-12
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016-11
5 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016-10
31 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-19
27 March 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresKansas Forest Service2015-15
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Flash FloodOnaga$10,000Water over many rural roads due to heavy rainfall.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOnaga$2,000Strong winds blew the roof off a shed several hundred feet.
May 2005Flash FloodOnaga$1,000Torrential rains brought about 6 inches of fast flowing water across roads in the area.
May 2000LightningOnaga$1,000Lightning did minor damage to a home near Onaga.
June 2008Tornado (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 2006Tornado (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 1999Flash FloodOnaga-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 2009HailOnaga-no account filed
March 2009HailOnaga-no account filed
March 2009HailOnaga-no account filed
June 2008HailOnaga-no account filed
April 2006HailOnaga-no account filed
May 2005HailOnaga-no account filed
June 2004HailOnaga-no account filed
November 2003HailOnaga-no account filed
July 2003HailOnaga-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindOnaga-no account filed
April 1999HailOnaga-no account filed
August 1999HailOnaga-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindOnaga-no account filed
June 1997HailOnaga-no account filed
June 1996HailOnaga-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
Duluth3.7 miles14
Havensville5.1 miles14
Wheaton8.0 miles15
Aikins8.8 miles16
Laclede10.1 miles16
Saint Clere10.2 miles16
Blaine12.4 miles17
Emmett13.9 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 OnagaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229084The 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.