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Richmond, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66080. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle. 459 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Richmond within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Richmond fell from 464 to 459 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
2010464
2020459-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Richmond between 2015 and 2018, burning about 65 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2

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
6 March 2018Smoking2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1852037
3 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1800009
28 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500029
23 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service9217
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAnderson County1754022
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500026
17 March 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresAnderson County1752043
11 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Richmond: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buildex Clay Pit & PlantClayProducer
Garnett Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
July 2005Flash FloodRichmond$50,000Small streams out of banks and flowing fast over rural roads.
July 2005Flash FloodRichmond$50,000Over two feet of water flowing across Butler road.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindRichmond$3,000Strong winds blew the roof off a trailer home.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRichmond$500High winds knocked over several trees.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Wind gust from personal weather station.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Wind gusts estimated of 60 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Public reported 60 mph wind gust.
May 2020HailRichmond-Quarter hail reported.
June 2019Flash FloodRichmond-Highway 59 was closed in Richmond due to water, approximately 30 inches deep, over the roadway.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Winds estimated to be 80-90 mph.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Wind gusts estimated.
June 2009HailRichmond-Spotter was driving on Hwy 59 between Princeton and Richmond and pulled over due to heavy rain and hail stones estimated to be as large as quarters.
August 1998FloodRichmond-An isolated thunderstorm produced 6 to 7 inches of rain flooding several streets in Richmond and surrounding communities. The flooding included highway 59 where several cars stalled when trying to cross the high water.
April 2019HailRichmond-no account filed
April 2014HailRichmond-no account filed
April 2014HailRichmond-no account filed
February 2011HailRichmond-no account filed
February 2011HailRichmond-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudRichmond-no account filed
July 2008HailRichmond-no account filed
June 2008HailRichmond-no account filed
May 2002HailRichmond-no account filed
May 2001HailRichmond-no account filed
April 2000HailRichmond-no account filed
August 1998HailRichmond-no account filed
August 1996FloodRichmond-no account filed
April 1995HailRichmond-no account filed
April 1994HailRichmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Princeton6.0 miles17
Lane9.4 miles17
Homewood10.2 miles17
B N Junction11.0 miles19
Ransomville11.6 miles17
Williamsburg12.5 miles18
Imes12.8 miles17
Silkville12.9 miles18

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 RichmondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901271The 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 484355. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.