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Randolph, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66554. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Randolph within Riley County

Population over time

2 figures

Randolph fell from 163 to 159 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
2010163
2020159-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,853 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service189
29 June 2018Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service18402
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18361
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18272
4 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18268
15 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service18292
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service18196

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randolph in 64 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 40 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Randolph-Fire Department Chief relayed damage reports from southeast side of Randolph damage to signs at intersection of Senn Road, highway 77 and Gardiner road along with minor tree limb damage. Short path and sporadic sometimes very sparse damage appears to suggest any vortex was not on the ground continuously but aloft more often than not as it moved across the area.
May 2021HailRandolph-Report of golf ball size hail.
April 2020HailRandolph-Ping pong sized hail reported.
April 2020HailRandolph-Quarter sized hail reported.
April 2020HailRandolph-Ping pong sized hail reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Wind gust to 72 mph measured with garmin instrument.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Wind gusts was estimated.
May 2018HailRandolph-Mostly pea size hail with a few quarters.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Nickel size hail falling as well.
May 2016HailRandolph-Winds estimated to be 50 mph as well.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Multiple outbuildings overturned. A barn was destroyed. A tree fell through a home. Numerous trees were uprooted. Reports were between University Park and Randolph.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Four inch diameter tree limbs blown out of maple tree.
June 2009HailRandolph-Riley County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Spotter reported a barn had been completely blown down across the street from his home. Doors were blown off of another outbuilding, and storm windows were blown out of the spotter's house. A tree was also blown down, and onto the spotter's house. ||
May 2005HailRandolph-Quarter size hail covered the ground along U.S. Highway 77.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Randolph-This tornado touched down 4 miles north of Randolph and moved north for about one mile across open country causing F0 damage to trees before dissipating. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Strong winds blew down trees.
June 2004Flash FloodRandolph-Heavy rain produced flash flooding near Randolph.
June 2004Flash FloodRandolph-Heavy rain caused flash flooding with a creek flowing out of its banks.
April 2025HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2017HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2016HailRandolph-no account filed
August 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
September 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
September 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
September 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
April 2014HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2013HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2013HailRandolph-no account filed
April 2012HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2011HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2010HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2008HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
June 2008HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2007HailRandolph-no account filed
May 2007HailRandolph-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
June 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
August 2004HailRandolph-no account filed
April 2002HailRandolph-no account filed
October 2002HailRandolph-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
August 2000HailRandolph-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
May 1999HailRandolph-no account filed
May 1999HailRandolph-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
July 1996HailRandolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riley 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
Walsburg3.8 miles19
Winkler5.2 miles19
Leonardville6.9 miles19
Lasita9.8 miles19
Riley9.8 miles19
Bala13.1 miles19
Keats14.5 miles25
Rocky Ford16.1 miles27

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 RandolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q568069The 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 476063. 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.