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.
Population over time
2 figuresRadium 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | |
| 2020 | 26 | +1 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1891 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Radium quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 59 |
| 27 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Stafford County | 70 |
| 6 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Stafford County | 50 |
| 22 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 55 |
| 19 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 acres | Quivira National Wildlife Refuge | EDEN VALLEY |
| 12 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 42 |
| 14 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Stafford County | 43 |
| 7 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Hail | Radium | - | Hail was estimated the sized of quarters by the public. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | Law enforcement reported multiple power poles blown down. |
| November 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | A dilapidated garage at the Senior Center was knocked down by the wind. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | Many 2 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2006 | Heavy Rain | Radium | - | 3.20" of rain. |
| June 2006 | Heavy Rain | Radium | - | 3.75" of rain. Crops were destroyed by hail of unknown size and winds of unknown speeds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | Twelve inch diameter tree limbs were broken. |
| March 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Radium | - | Brief tornado. |
| March 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Radium | - | Brief tornado. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | Large tree limbs broken. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Radium | - | Tornado briefly touched down in open farmland with no damage or injuries reported. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radium | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| February 1995 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| February 1995 | Hail | Radium | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Radium | - | 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.
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 Radium | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673379 | 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 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.






