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Radium, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67550. The Survey maps it on the Radium quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.

Radium within Stafford County

Population over time

2 figures

Radium grew from 25 to 26 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
201025
202026+1 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Radium between 2006 and 2018, burning about 99 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
3 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service59
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStafford County70
6 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStafford County50
22 June 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service55
19 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined51 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeEDEN VALLEY
12 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service42
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStafford County43
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stafford County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radium in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 2024HailRadium-Hail was estimated the sized of quarters by the public.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRadium-Law enforcement reported multiple power poles blown down.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindRadium-A dilapidated garage at the Senior Center was knocked down by the wind.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRadium-Many 2 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2006Heavy RainRadium-3.20" of rain.
June 2006Heavy RainRadium-3.75" of rain. Crops were destroyed by hail of unknown size and winds of unknown speeds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRadium-Twelve inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Radium-Brief tornado.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Radium-Brief tornado.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindRadium-Large tree limbs broken.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Radium-Tornado briefly touched down in open farmland with no damage or injuries reported.
April 2021HailRadium-no account filed
June 2018HailRadium-no account filed
May 2015HailRadium-no account filed
June 2008HailRadium-no account filed
June 2008HailRadium-no account filed
June 2008HailRadium-no account filed
April 2008HailRadium-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRadium-no account filed
July 2005HailRadium-no account filed
July 2002HailRadium-no account filed
April 2001HailRadium-no account filed
May 1996HailRadium-no account filed
February 1995HailRadium-no account filed
February 1995HailRadium-no account filed
May 1993HailRadium-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stafford 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
Seward5.2 miles15
Hudson13.2 miles15
St. John13.8 miles15
Dillwyn14.0 miles14
Macksville15.4 miles14
Stafford21.3 miles14
Zenith26.0 miles13
Neola29.3 miles14

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 RadiumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673379The 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 475866. 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.