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.
Population over time
2 figuresPiqua 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 107 | |
| 2020 | 90 | -17 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 15 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 65 |
| 27 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 38 |
| 27 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 26 February 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 23 December 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 32 |
| 9 January 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 19 January 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Piqua | - | A trained spotter estimated 70 mph winds along with pea to marble sized hail. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Piqua | - | The hail was mainly nickel size, but a few quarter size hail stones also fell. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Piqua | - | Bridge washed out on 150th Road between Violet and Ute Roads. County Road washed out between Piqua and Neosho Falls. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Piqua | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Piqua | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Piqua | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Piqua | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Piqua | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Neosho Falls | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Vernon | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Cookville | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Hasty | 8.3 miles | 18 | |
| Durand | 8.7 miles | 18 | |
| Yates Center | 10.9 miles | 18 | |
| Rose | 12.0 miles | 17 |
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 Piqua | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2038259 | 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 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.









