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Rexford, Kansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67753. The Survey maps it on the Rexford quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,956 feet above sea level.

Rexford within Thomas County

Population over time

2 figures

Rexford fell from 232 to 197 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
2010232
2020197-35 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rexford in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 2022Thunderstorm WindRexford$8,000Straight-line winds lifted metal roof panels off an older outbuilding. The building was in decent condition prior to the storm.
August 2017FloodRexford$7,000A semi tipped over on Highway 83, possibly due to hydroplaning from the heavy rainfall.
June 2024HailRexford-Dime to penny sized hail reported.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRexford-Personal Weather Station measurement.
May 2023HailRexford-The hail ranged from pea to golf ball in size.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRexford-A citizen weather station (CWOP FW0981) reported a measured wind gust of 58 mph as the line of storms passed over.
May 2019HailRexford-Up to quarter sized hail reported by the public.
March 2019FloodRexford-Roads crossing the North Fork of the Prairie Dog Creek are flooded in Wendell Township.
March 2019FloodRexford-Roads crossing the North Fork of the Prairie Dog Creek are flooded in Wendell Township.
March 2019FloodRexford-Roads crossing the North Fork of the Prairie Dog Creek are flooded in Wendell Township.
March 2019FloodRexford-Roads crossing the North Fork of the Prairie Dog Creek are flooded in Wendell Township.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRexford-Approximately 60 mph winds were estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2019Flash FloodRexford-Local law enforcement reported that roads were partially flooded in Rexford.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRexford-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts in Rexford.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRexford-An 18 ft. diameter swimming pool with a foot and a half of water in it was tossed over.
June 2014HailRexford-Baseball to almost softball size hail was reported in Rexford. Received hail reports through social media.
May 2010HailRexford-Report relayed via NSSL Shave project.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRexford-Chaser estimated outflow winds to be 80 mph. Winds blew two tires off a rack.
October 2000Tornado (F0)Rexford-Tornado developed near Thomas-Sheridan County Line, then moved into Sheridan County. No damage reported.
May 2023HailRexford-no account filed
May 2019HailRexford-no account filed
August 2019HailRexford-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRexford-no account filed
July 2016HailRexford-no account filed
May 2010HailRexford-no account filed
May 2008HailRexford-no account filed
April 2003HailRexford-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindRexford-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRexford-no account filed
June 2001HailRexford-no account filed
May 2000HailRexford-no account filed
June 2000HailRexford-no account filed
May 1997HailRexford-no account filed
April 1997Tornado (F0)Rexford-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindRexford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Breton4.0 miles7
Menlo8.0 miles7
Gem8.7 miles7
Halford9.5 miles7
Colby17.2 miles9
Mingo17.7 miles7
Spica20.4 miles8
Levant24.7 miles9

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 RexfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957665The 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 471214. 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.

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.