BlockPortis, Kansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bethany Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67474. It stands on Lindley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portis quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPortis fell from 103 to 86 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 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -17 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Portis quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portis in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portis | 1 hurt, $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Portis | $1,000,000 | Heavy rain in excess of 4 inches caused flooding in northeast Osborne County along the North Fork of the Solomon River, the Twelve-mile Creek and the Oak Creek. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Portis | $500,000 | This tornado broke contact with the ground several times but managed to knock down numerous telephone poles between Portis and Delphos as well as inflicting significant damage to several farm outbuildings just north of Delphos. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Portis | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Portis | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Portis | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Portis | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Flood | Portis | - | Minor flooding occurred on the North Fork Solomon River near Portis between the morning of the 5th and the late afternoon of the 6th. The crest of 16.89 feet occurred on the morning of the 6th (flood stage is 15 ft.). |
| June 2013 | Hail | Portis | - | Hail ranged from the size of peas to quarters. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Portis | - | Rainfall measured by an automated gauge along the North Fork of the Solomon River over the previous 12 hours was 3.36 inches. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Portis | - | Storm total rainfall was 4.63 inches. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Portis | - | Hail accompanied by wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Portis | - | Brief touchdown was reported. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Portis | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Portis | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Portis | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osborne | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomington | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Downs | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Forney | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Corinth | 12.9 miles | 15 | |
| Alton | 14.9 miles | 15 | |
| Covert | 20.5 miles | 13 | |
| Cheyenne Gap (historical) | 23.8 miles | 13 |
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 Portis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2384715 | 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 472158. 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.
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.