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Piqua, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neosho Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66761. The Survey maps it on the Piqua quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Piqua within Woodson County

Population over time

2 figures

Piqua fell from 107 to 90 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
2010107
202090-17 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Piqua between 2015 and 2016, burning about 254 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
5 March 2015Debris and open burning90 acresKansas Forest Service7
15 March 2015Arson/incendiarism80 acresKansas Forest Service65
27 February 2016Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Service38
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service39
26 February 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresKansas Forest Service6
23 December 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
9 January 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service3
19 January 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piqua in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2024Thunderstorm WindPiqua-A trained spotter estimated 70 mph winds along with pea to marble sized hail.
August 2020HailPiqua-The hail was mainly nickel size, but a few quarter size hail stones also fell.
May 2005Flash FloodPiqua-Bridge washed out on 150th Road between Violet and Ute Roads. County Road washed out between Piqua and Neosho Falls.
March 2017HailPiqua-no account filed
April 2014HailPiqua-no account filed
April 2013HailPiqua-no account filed
May 2013HailPiqua-no account filed
May 2000HailPiqua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodson 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
Athens4.3 miles17
Neosho Falls5.8 miles16
Vernon7.6 miles18
Cookville7.7 miles17
Hasty8.3 miles18
Durand8.7 miles18
Yates Center10.9 miles18
Rose12.0 miles17

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 PiquaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2038259The 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 474484. 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.