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Paradise, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Paradise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67658. The Survey maps it on the Paradise quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,693 feet above sea level.

Paradise within Russell County

On record in Paradise

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Paradise fell from 49 to 35 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
201049
202035-14 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Paradise between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,907 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
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
24 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKansas Forest Service150021
4 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service180014
8 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180010
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Debris and open burning200 acresKansas Forest Service150004
27 March 2017Naturalunder an acreRussell County170016
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,600 acresRussell CountyANGEL GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paradise in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 26 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2011HailParadise$300,000Several home roofs and vehicles were damaged countywide by golfball to baseball size hail. The exact number of roofs and vehicles damaged in unknown, so property damage amounts are rough estimates.
May 2002Tornado (F1)Paradise$170,000Damaged outbuildings and power lines.
June 2011HailParadise$30,000The hail damaged some cars. Damage amounts are rough estimates.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindParadise$1,000Road signs were blown over near the county line.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindParadise$50no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindParadise-A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2023HailParadise-Two inch diameter tree limbs were also blown down.
May 2021Flash FloodParadise-The main street in Paradise is impassable with water over the roads. They have begun to evacuate the community. There was a water rescue for a family of 4 just west of Paradise. Many other county roads in the vicinity were also covered with water and impasable.
May 2018FloodParadise-The very heavy rains caused such significant rises on the Saline River that it overflowed around Fairport. Fairport Road was flooded at both the east and west entrances into Fairport. One section of Fairport Road was flooded 2 to 4 feet deep near the river bridges. Sand bags were placed around 1 home. Flooding also occurred about 1 mile southeast of Fairport on 176th Street.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindParadise-One foot diameter tree limbs were downed near 179th and Decker by winds that ranged from 70 to 80 mph.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Paradise-Rain wrapped rope tornado that briefly touched the ground. The tornado was 40 yards wide.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Paradise-A brief rope tornado was reported and caused damage to a few trees along Paradise Rd. Initial reports of damage to a barn and radio shed were deemed as old damage from a previous storm.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindParadise-Shingles were blown off the roof of a home.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindParadise-Winds were estimated by law enforcement.
June 2011Flash FloodParadise-Heavy rainfall amounts exceeding 2 inches from the evening on the 1st into the overnight hours produced widespread flooding across mainly northern and northeast portions of Russell county. Numerous rural roads were closed due to high water. Additionally, various small streams and creeks were running bankfull, especially in the vicinity of Wolf Creek. Unfortunately, any property damage that may have occurred as a result of the flooding is unknown.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindParadise-A trained spotter reported the gust along with dime size hail.
May 2003HailParadise-AGTAP Spotter RS101.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindParadise-Tree damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindParadise-Tree damage.
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
August 2015HailParadise-no account filed
April 2015HailParadise-no account filed
May 2013HailParadise-no account filed
May 2011HailParadise-no account filed
June 2011HailParadise-no account filed
July 2010HailParadise-no account filed
May 2008HailParadise-no account filed
May 2008HailParadise-no account filed
June 2008HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
July 2002HailParadise-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed
October 2001HailParadise-no account filed
August 2001HailParadise-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed
June 2000HailParadise-no account filed
June 2000HailParadise-no account filed
May 1999HailParadise-no account filed
June 1998HailParadise-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Waldo6.4 miles13
Fairport7.6 miles12
Luray12.2 miles13
Russell15.4 miles13
Balta15.8 miles13
Gorham16.9 miles14
Homer18.0 miles14
Bunker Hill20.0 miles13

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 ParadiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2467237The 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 472527. 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.