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Ozawkie, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Ozawkie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66070. It stands on Little Slough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ozawkie quadrangle. 638 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Ozawkie within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Ozawkie fell from 645 to 638 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
2010645
2020638-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

104 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Ozawkie between 2002 and 2020, burning about 873 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Other causes1
Smoking1
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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJefferson County242
19 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJefferson County221
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service178
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service75
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service121
6 July 2002Natural1.0 acresJefferson Countynot named
3 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJefferson Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozawkie in 54 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 28 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOzawkie$2,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOzawkie$1,000Trained spotters and emergency managers reported 60 mph wind gusts near Perry Lake. An 8 to 9 inch tree was blown down near Williamstown.
October 2024HailOzawkie-Quarter size hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-A 6.5 inch diameter tree down and one foot diameter tree down.
April 2023HailOzawkie-Observed at the Lakeside Village boat ramp.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Reported at 134th and King.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Report of 70 mph wind gust on K-92 highway.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Report of 70 mph wind gust.
July 2020Flash FloodOzawkie-Road closed at 46th and Linn due to flooding.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Tree limbs of 2 inches in diameter were down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Estimated wind gusts.
June 2019Flash FloodOzawkie-Water was over the road at 94th Road between Kingman and Ferguson Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Estimated wind gust report.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Estimated wind gust report.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Several reports of uprooted trees and large limbs 12-18 inches in diameter blown down. One house was damaged due to large limbs falling. Time was estimated by radar.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-Spotter estimated winds of 60 mph.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Ozawkie-A brief and weak tornado which began as a waterspout over Lake Perry came ashore and produced tree damage around Lakeside Village. One tree fell on a mobile home and entrapped the resident for a period of time. No injuries were reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-An off-duty NWS employee reported 65 mph winds near Lake Perry.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-In Ozawkie, sporadic 12 inch branches were broken off of trees. Two fell into roofs and caused minor damage. Elsewhere, near Winchester, more 2 inch and smaller branches were broken off of trees.
July 2007Funnel CloudOzawkie-Numerous reports of funnel clouds in the Ozawkie area.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Ozawkie-A tornado touched down briefly near Ozawkie but did no damage.
May 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2011HailOzawkie-no account filed
September 2010HailOzawkie-no account filed
September 2010HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
April 2006HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2006HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2005HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2005HailOzawkie-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
June 2005HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2005HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
June 2005HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2003HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
November 2003HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
April 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 2001HailOzawkie-no account filed
September 2000HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed
June 1998HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 1997HailOzawkie-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOzawkie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Indian Ridge1.1 miles22
Lake Shore2.4 miles22
West Shore3.1 miles22
Hilldale3.6 miles22
Rock Creek3.8 miles19
Hilldale South4.1 miles22
Lakeside Village4.7 miles22
Lake Ridge4.7 miles22

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 OzawkieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2495876The 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 478489. 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.