Parkerville, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 66872. It stands on Parkers Creek. The Survey maps it on the White City quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresParkerville fell from 59 to 46 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 | 59 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -13 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Parkerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS White City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Parkerville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018025 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015016 |
| 6 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018012 |
| 21 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018008 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015009 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkerville in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Parkerville | $130,000 | Large hail driven by high winds caused widespread roof, window and vehicle damage in and around the area. Two of the counties sheriff's cars and one Emergency Medical Transport vehicle received enough hail damage to render them out-of-sevice. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parkerville | - | Report of a 65 mph wind gust from an NWS employee. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parkerville | - | Public report also included dime to nickel sized hail. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parkerville | - | Tree damage and power lines down, possibly associated with a tornado. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Parkerville | - | The tornado briefly touched down 3 miles north of Parkerville and travelled north for about one quarter of a mile before dissipating. It produced no damage and was rated F0. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Parkerville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Parkerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White City | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Downing (historical) | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Dwight | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsey | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Latimer | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Helmick | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Skiddy | 10.1 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 Parkerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2238098 | 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 476886. 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.





