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Randall, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66963. The Survey maps it on the Randall quadrangle. 79 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Randall within Jewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Randall grew from 65 to 79 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
201065
202079+14 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Randall between 2005 and 2018, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 June 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKirwin National Wildlife RefugeREC
15 June 2018Natural20 acresKansas Forest Service17
4 January 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randall in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2012Tornado (EF0)Randall$35,000A weak tornado, with peak winds estimated at 75 mph, touched down briefly southeast of Randall. Damage consisted of a few broken power poles, sheared off trees and a metal roof being torn from an outbuilding.
August 2014HailRandall$25,000Ditches eventually filled from heavy rain falling along with the golf ball hail, and immediately following the large hail.
June 2008HailRandall$10,000Quarter size hail was reported covering the ground.
June 2008HailRandall$10,000no account filed
June 2004HailRandall$10,000no account filed
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Randall$5,000This tornado near the town of Randall was rated an EF1, with an estimated peak wind speed of 90 MPH. Damage from this tornado was confined to trees, and the path was determined from video and eyewitness accounts.
May 2007HailRandall$5,000no account filed
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Randall$2,000A storm chaser captured video of a tornado that started near Solomon Rapids and moved north. The tornado entered Jewell County from Mitchell County along Highway 14. Being in open and rural areas of Jewell County, only trees and a few power poles were damaged as well as some wheat fields.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRandall$1,000Wind gusts estimated near 60 MPH resulted in tree limbs being downed, breaking a window at one home.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRandall-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located near Randall.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRandall-A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located in Randall.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRandall-A 58 MPH wind gusts was measured by a mesonet station located in Randall.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRandall-A 60 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located in Randall.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Randall-This tornado touched down approximately 3 miles northeast of Randall, and took a southeasterly path for about 1 mile before shifting back to the northeast and lifting approximately 5 miles northeast of town. Along the path there was tree damage, and minor damage to one farm home, which also had a garage, barn and grain bins destroyed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRandall-Numerous tree limbs of 6 inches in diameter blown down, one small shed was destroyed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRandall-A tree approximately 9 inches in diameter was snapped.
September 2008Flash FloodRandall-Water was running across highway 14 in southern Jewell county.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRandall-Five inch diameter tree limbs reported downed by the wind.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Randall-Tornado exited Jewell County and entered Mitchell County
May 2019HailRandall-no account filed
May 2011HailRandall-no account filed
May 2011HailRandall-no account filed
June 2010HailRandall-no account filed
June 2010HailRandall-no account filed
June 2008HailRandall-no account filed
May 2004HailRandall-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRandall-no account filed
July 2003HailRandall-no account filed
August 2001HailRandall-no account filed
May 1997HailRandall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Jewell6.1 miles13
Formoso9.9 miles13
Montrose10.1 miles13
Mankato13.3 miles13
Lovewell15.7 miles13
Ionia16.1 miles13
Webber20.2 miles13
Otego20.5 miles13

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 RandallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2488274The 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 472113. 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.