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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.

Robinson within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Robinson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010234
2020183-51 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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 2015

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
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
22 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Service31
21 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service20
13 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F0)Robinson$25,000A 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 2018Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Damage to barn roof and siding of house due to estimated 60 to 70 mph winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Damage to machine shed and 3 trees were blown down.
June 2015Flash FloodRobinson-There were two locations near Robinson where gravel and debris had been washed onto the roads from water coming off the fields.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Robinson-Report of a brief tornado touchdown that lasted around one minute. No damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRobinson-The attached deck was blown off the house. A large tree was also blown over.
July 2013HailRobinson-Winds were 35 to 40 mph. Hail fell for 15 minutes ranging from peas to quarters.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Measured by spotter and small tree limbs down.
May 2013FloodRobinson-Water over road on 250th between Sagebrush and Thrasher.
May 2013FloodRobinson-Water over road on 250th between Sagebrush and Thrasher.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRobinson-APRS mesonet site measured 66 mph wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Law enforcement estimates winds of 60 mph.
June 2010FloodRobinson-A small rural creek was out of its banks and flooded a field near Old Highway 36.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRobinson-A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindRobinson-A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindRobinson-A trained spotter near Robinson reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2008HailRobinson-Spotters at several locations in Robinson reported golfball size hail.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindRobinson-A barn was destroyed and power poles were downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Two to three inch diameter tree branches reported down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRobinson-Powerlines downed.
August 2019HailRobinson-no account filed
May 2013HailRobinson-no account filed
May 2013HailRobinson-no account filed
June 2011HailRobinson-no account filed
May 2011HailRobinson-no account filed
June 2010HailRobinson-no account filed
May 2009HailRobinson-no account filed
June 2008HailRobinson-no account filed
April 2006HailRobinson-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRobinson-no account filed
August 2005HailRobinson-no account filed
February 2004HailRobinson-no account filed
July 2004HailRobinson-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRobinson-no account filed
June 1999HailRobinson-no account filed
June 1996HailRobinson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Hiawatha7.1 miles18
Willis8.1 miles17
Baker9.2 miles18
Everest9.7 miles20
Padonia10.9 miles17
Powhattan12.2 miles17
Horton12.4 miles17
Mercier12.6 miles17

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 RobinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443025The 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.