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.
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
- Battle of Mine Creek Sitelisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresPleasanton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,216 | |
| 2020 | 1,208 | -8 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
89 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 621 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 579 |
| 4 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 70418 |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 573 |
| 25 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge | BALER |
| 21 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 52 acres | Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge | LONE 20 EAST |
| 19 June 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge | MINE CREEK CAMPFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | $50,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | $1,000 | Numerous reports of power lines blown down across town. Tree branches up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | $1,000 | Power lines and trees were reported down across town. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | $1,000 | A tree was blown into a residence. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | $1,000 | Metal roof blown off business on main Street. Power lines were also downed. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Measured 62 mph wind gust in Pleasanton. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Multiple reports of wires down and power outages in eastern Linn County near Pleasanton. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Multiple reports of downed limbs and wires in the Pleasanton area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Report of 60 mph winds in Pleasanton. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Social media report of trees and large limbs downed in Pleasanton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Delayed report. Social Media photos of a tree uprooted, falling onto a house. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Pleasanton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Downed wires and power outages near 7th Street. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | A tree was downed in Pleasanton. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph was reported in Pleasanton. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | A tree fell onto a powerline, causing a localized power outage. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Large tree in the roadway. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Several outbuildings were blown down and numerous tree limbs were down in Pleasanton. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Two inch diameter tree limbs broken and a metal outbuilding damaged. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | Sheriff's office reported hail up to 2 inches deep, on County Road 500 near Highway 69. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Pleasanton | - | The Marais Des Cygnes River near Trading Post crested at 30.34 feet, or 5.34 feet above flood stage. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Pleasanton | - | Water was over Road 700 in three different locations. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | Numerous large trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds in Pleasanton and La Cygne. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasanton | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Pleasanton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trading Post | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Mound City | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Boicourt | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Prescott | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| Farlinville | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Mantey | 10.0 miles | 15 | |
| Critzer | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| La Cygne Corner | 11.7 miles | 16 |
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 Pleasanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666651 | 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 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.







