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Pleasanton, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Potosi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66075. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle. 1,208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Pleasanton within Linn County

On record in Pleasanton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasanton fell from 1,216 to 1,208 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
20101,216
20201,208-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

89 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Pleasanton between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,651 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service621
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service579
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service70418
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service573
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeBALER
21 June 2017Debris and open burning52 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLONE 20 EAST
19 June 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeMINE CREEK CAMPFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasanton in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$50,000A second severe storm downed trees as well as tore a roof off of a mobile home. Woodson County 5 NW Yates Center,15,2245CST,,,0,0,1,0,Hail (1.00)
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Numerous reports of power lines blown down across town. Tree branches up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Power lines and trees were reported down across town.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000A tree was blown into a residence.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Metal roof blown off business on main Street. Power lines were also downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Measured 62 mph wind gust in Pleasanton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Multiple reports of wires down and power outages in eastern Linn County near Pleasanton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Multiple reports of downed limbs and wires in the Pleasanton area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Report of 60 mph winds in Pleasanton.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Social media report of trees and large limbs downed in Pleasanton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Delayed report. Social Media photos of a tree uprooted, falling onto a house. Time estimated from radar.
May 2024HailPleasanton-Quarter sized hail was reported in Pleasanton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Downed wires and power outages near 7th Street.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-A tree was downed in Pleasanton.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph was reported in Pleasanton.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-A tree fell onto a powerline, causing a localized power outage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Large tree in the roadway.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Several outbuildings were blown down and numerous tree limbs were down in Pleasanton.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Two inch diameter tree limbs broken and a metal outbuilding damaged.
July 2013HailPleasanton-Sheriff's office reported hail up to 2 inches deep, on County Road 500 near Highway 69.
May 2007FloodPleasanton-The Marais Des Cygnes River near Trading Post crested at 30.34 feet, or 5.34 feet above flood stage.
June 2007Flash FloodPleasanton-Water was over Road 700 in three different locations.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Numerous large trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds in Pleasanton and La Cygne.
May 2013HailPleasanton-no account filed
September 2012HailPleasanton-no account filed
June 2008HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2007HailPleasanton-no account filed
March 2006HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
April 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
August 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
May 2002HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2001HailPleasanton-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPleasanton-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
April 1993HailPleasanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Trading Post5.1 miles15
Mound City5.9 miles15
Boicourt6.4 miles16
Prescott7.9 miles15
Farlinville8.5 miles15
Mantey10.0 miles15
Critzer11.0 miles14
La Cygne Corner11.7 miles16

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 PleasantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666651The 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 477924. 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.