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Princeton, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66078. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Princeton within Franklin County

On record in Princeton

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

Princeton fell from 277 to 248 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
2010277
2020248-29 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

47 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Princeton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500057
13 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresFranklin County1700038
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service164
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service65
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1800043
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service47
19 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Princeton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buildex Clay Pit & PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Princeton in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
August 1998Thunderstorm WindPrinceton$325,000At least 10 homes along with numerous trees and power lines were badly damaged by 60 to 70 mph straight line winds.
July 2005Flash FloodPrinceton$50,000Clark, Georgia and Butler roads impassable due to fast flowing water.
July 2005Flash FloodPrinceton$50,000Up to three feet of water flowing over county roads west of Princeton with trucks flooded.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindPrinceton$2,000Strong winds damaged shingles and blew down 3 inch diameter tree limbs.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindPrinceton$2,000Strong winds damaged outbuildings and a barn.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-Measured on a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-Also had some dime sized hail.
June 2021Flash FloodPrinceton-Report of water over roadways in Princeton.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-Report of 65 mph wind gust.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Princeton-A firefighter gave a first hand account of being |impacted by the tornado in the town of Princeton, including power|flashes and rotating wind field. Damage to trees and power lines|in Princeton was reported. The tornado traveled east, impacting a|home on Nebraska Road where it was able to remove a majority of |the roof. 0.5 miles east of Nebraska Road a barn was destroyed and|other outbuildings damaged while a nearby home only experienced|minor roof damage. The tornado likely dissipated shortly after this|point while downburst winds continued to the east where approximately|20 power poles oriented north to south along Texas road were damaged.
April 2010Flash FloodPrinceton-Multiple county roads were flooded in the Princeton area.
June 2010Flash FloodPrinceton-Flash flooding was reported in the Princeton area.
June 2010Flash FloodPrinceton-Several county roads southwest and south of Princeton had water over them.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Princeton-This was a brief touchdown.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-A 100 foot tall tower was blown down in the town of Princeton.
April 1993HailPrinceton-Golfball-size hail fell in the Princeton area with numerous reports of 0.25- to 0.50-inch hail across parts of Osage, Shawnee, Douglas, Marshall and Nemaha counties. The hail was soft, but briefly covered the ground in some areas. Heavy localized rainfall and saturated ground caused flooding of streets and poor drainage areas.
April 2018HailPrinceton-no account filed
April 2018HailPrinceton-no account filed
May 2017HailPrinceton-no account filed
April 2014HailPrinceton-no account filed
April 2011HailPrinceton-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudPrinceton-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-no account filed
July 2008HailPrinceton-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-no account filed
June 2005HailPrinceton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPrinceton-no account filed
June 1998HailPrinceton-no account filed
April 1996HailPrinceton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
B N Junction5.0 miles19
Homewood5.8 miles17
Richmond6.0 miles17
Ransomville8.1 miles17
Imes8.5 miles17
Ottawa8.7 miles19
Peoria9.4 miles17
Ottawa Junction10.0 miles18

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 PrincetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2343489The 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 477586. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.