Robinson, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Robinson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66532. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRobinson fell from 234 to 183 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 | 234 | |
| 2020 | 183 | -51 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Robinson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Robinson between 2015 and 2020, burning about 56 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 20 |
| 13 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robinson in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Robinson | $25,000 | A brief tornado touchdown was noted 3 miles SSW of Robinson at 5:52pm cst from a supercell thunderstorm. It was 50 yards wide and remained on the ground for only one tenth of a mile. It caused about $25,000 of damage to a home and also damaged some trees before dissipating at 5:53pm cst. The parent thunderstorm also caused separate straight line wind damage in Robinson as well. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Damage to barn roof and siding of house due to estimated 60 to 70 mph winds. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Damage to machine shed and 3 trees were blown down. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Robinson | - | There were two locations near Robinson where gravel and debris had been washed onto the roads from water coming off the fields. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Robinson | - | Report of a brief tornado touchdown that lasted around one minute. No damage. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | The attached deck was blown off the house. A large tree was also blown over. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Robinson | - | Winds were 35 to 40 mph. Hail fell for 15 minutes ranging from peas to quarters. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Measured by spotter and small tree limbs down. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Robinson | - | Water over road on 250th between Sagebrush and Thrasher. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Robinson | - | Water over road on 250th between Sagebrush and Thrasher. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | APRS mesonet site measured 66 mph wind gust. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Law enforcement estimates winds of 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Robinson | - | A small rural creek was out of its banks and flooded a field near Old Highway 36. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Robinson | - | Spotters at several locations in Robinson reported golfball size hail. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | A barn was destroyed and power poles were downed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches reported down. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | Powerlines downed. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Robinson | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Robinson | - | 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 Robinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443025 | 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 472996. 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.









