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Partridge, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67566. The Survey maps it on the Partridge quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

Partridge within Reno County

Population over time

2 figures

Partridge fell from 248 to 209 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
2010248
2020209-39 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Partridge between 2015 and 2017, burning about 35 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreReno County3375
10 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresReno County1700064
6 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service1916
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service36
7 April 2015Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service31
29 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service352

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Partridge in 40 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 21 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 1 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 2009Thunderstorm WindPartridge$80,000Winds esitmated to be 60 mph destroyed a 140 year old barn on a property northeast of Partridge. The large barn measured 60 feet wide by 30 feet tall, with 3600 square feet of usable space.
February 2012Tornado (EF0)Partridge$30,000The tornado extensively damaged an old barn, flipped over a pickup and a stock trailer, and produced damage to the home's porch. Some tree damage was also noted. The Hutchinson News contributed to this report.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPartridge$10,000Damage to fences and large trees.
June 2010FloodPartridge$100Rainfall amounts of 6 to 10 inches over a two day period from June 12th to early on June 14th led to widespread county road closures just to the west and northwest of Hutchinson. At one time, 20 roads were closed and another half dozen had standing water across them. Most of the closures were located along Cow Creek as it flows from Nickerson southeast to Hutchinson. Due to the large amount of heavy rainfall, some roads were closed for almost a week.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPartridge-The Kansas State Mesonet site about 10 miles southwest of Hutchinson recorded a 10-meter wind gust of 91 mph along with a 2-meter wind gust of 76 mph. This is corroborated with a National Weather Service cooperative observer reporting several tree limbs downed across the same area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPartridge-Delayed report that was measured at a Kansas State Mesonet site.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPartridge-Measured wind gust from the Kansas Mesonet.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindPartridge-This was a measured wind gust of 60 mph reported by the public.
September 2022HailPartridge-The highway was reported as being completely covered with hail.
May 2019HailPartridge-A picture of ping pong ball-sized hail was submitted via Twitter.
February 2012Tornado (EF0)Partridge-The tornado briefly touched down again causing minimal damage.
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Partridge-A brief touchdown occured in open country near High Point road just southwest of Hutchinson.
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Partridge-The tornado was reported just to the west of the intersection of highways 61 and 50. The tornado touched down in an open field with no damage reported.
April 2008HailPartridge-Pea to dime sized hail covered to ground.
May 2007HailPartridge-The observer also reported a wall cloud to the southeast of Partridge.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Partridge-Brief touchdown in open country.
July 2005HailPartridge-Damage?
July 2005HailPartridge-Damage?
July 2003Tornado (F0)Partridge-Brief touchdown in the country.
June 2002HailPartridge-No dollar estimate available. However, accompanied by 50-60kt winds, the hail damaged approximately 75,000 acres of wheat, with potential losses reaching 25 million bushels. (See 1456 entry for 4N Castleton).
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
May 2009HailPartridge-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
May 2007HailPartridge-no account filed
September 2006HailPartridge-no account filed
September 2006HailPartridge-no account filed
July 2005HailPartridge-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
July 2003HailPartridge-no account filed
April 2002HailPartridge-no account filed
April 2002HailPartridge-no account filed
April 2002HailPartridge-no account filed
June 2002HailPartridge-no account filed
April 2001HailPartridge-no account filed
July 2001HailPartridge-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
September 2001HailPartridge-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPartridge-no account filed
June 1998HailPartridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Whiteside5.0 miles16
Abbyville5.9 miles13
Adams Corner6.2 miles16
Arlington6.7 miles13
Charters Corner7.7 miles14
Darlow7.8 miles13
Cruppers Corner8.1 miles13
Elmer8.6 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 PartridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2444021The 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 473634. 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.