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Penalosa, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eureka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67035. The Survey maps it on the Penalosa quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,729 feet above sea level.

Penalosa within Kingman County

Population over time

2 figures

Penalosa grew from 17 to 18 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
201017
202018+1 (+6%)

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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Penalosa in 2020, burning about 400 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/undetermined1

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
18 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresReno CountyAVERY

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penalosa in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 35 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
May 1993HailPenalosa$50,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPenalosa$2,500A tree with a 14-inch diameter trunk was uprooted.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPenalosa$1,000A large tree was downed at Kingman State Fishing Lake.
October 2018FloodPenalosa$500Numerous county roads were flooded due to high water.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-Wind gust was measured at 70 mph. At least four inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-A trained spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph winds and reported pea sized hail.
April 2023HailPenalosa-Ninety precent of the ground was covered by hail.
July 2021FloodPenalosa-Some minor road flooding was reported around the county.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-Sixty mph winds and quarter size hail were reported.
May 2016HailPenalosa-Sixty mph winds were also reported.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Penalosa-The report was relayed by law enforcement.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-Ping pong ball-sized hail also occurred.
June 2013HailPenalosa-Gusts around 60 mph were also reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-A trained spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Penalosa-Brief touchdown in an open field.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Penalosa-Minor damage to trees were noted.
May 2010HailPenalosa-Some crop damage occurred to wheat fields.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-Debris was on the road with trees snapped in half.
September 2009Heavy RainPenalosa-Rainfall amounts measured 3.35 inches. The report was relayed by KSN TV.
May 2006HailPenalosa-Occurred with 40 mph winds.
May 2001HailPenalosa-Occurred on southeast side of town.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-Several large tree limbs blown down.
April 2025HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2012HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2011HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2010HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2010HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2007HailPenalosa-no account filed
April 2006HailPenalosa-no account filed
April 2006HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2006HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-no account filed
May 2006HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-no account filed
May 2006HailPenalosa-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPenalosa-no account filed
May 2004HailPenalosa-no account filed
June 2004HailPenalosa-no account filed
June 2004HailPenalosa-no account filed
September 2003HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2002HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2002HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2002HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 2002HailPenalosa-no account filed
June 2002HailPenalosa-no account filed
April 2001HailPenalosa-no account filed
April 2001HailPenalosa-no account filed
June 2001HailPenalosa-no account filed
February 2000HailPenalosa-no account filed
September 1999HailPenalosa-no account filed
May 1998HailPenalosa-no account filed
November 1998HailPenalosa-no account filed
April 1994HailPenalosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Calista5.7 miles13
Skellyville7.5 miles13
Cunningham7.8 miles13
Kingman12.0 miles14
Saint Leo13.8 miles13
Willowdale13.9 miles13
Varner15.0 miles14
Cleveland15.1 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 PenalosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666636The 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 473953. 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.