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Rush Center, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67575. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rush Center quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,995 feet above sea level.

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Rush Center within Rush County

Population over time

2 figures

Rush Center fell from 170 to 141 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
2010170
2020141-29 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rush Center between 2017 and 2020, burning about 35 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County43059
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRush County42575
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service183169
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County41697
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreRush County40212
28 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service181928
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County39800

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rush County

Storms near this place

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rush Center in 87 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 60 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 flash 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
May 1999HailRush Center$2,480,000Widespread severe weather continued from eastern Colorado, spreading across Rush county during the midnight hour. One person escaped injury by crawling out of bed! Golf ball size hail driven by 70 mph wind smashed through the window and window blind and passed by a man's head as he lay in bed. After the event, hail and glass shreds covered the bed. Loss to wildlife and some livestock across the county was heavy. There was a report of several dead cattle and many injured cow and horses. One-hundred thousand acres of wheat were mowed down, 3,500 acres of corn damaged and 4,000 acres of alfalfa destroyed (first cutting). $480,000 in damage was done to farm equipment across the county (included in the $2.48m)
April 2001Tornado (F2)Rush Center$200,000Two farms received heavy damage (grain bins, roofs, shed and vehicle)
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Rush Center$125,000A tornado damaged a pivot sprinkler, trees and a few out buildings.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRush Center$14,000High winds produced minor roof damage, blew down signs and blew down 11 power poles between LaCrosse and Rush Center.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRush Center$6,000Twelve power poles were blown down just east of highway 183
April 2026HailRush Center-A public report of 1.25 inch hail. There was 2 other reports of 1 inch hail around the same time and place.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindRush Center-A mesonet site recorded a 57 mph wind gust.
April 2021HailRush Center-Nickle to quarter sized hail.
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Rush Center-This landspout did not damage anything.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Large tree limbs were broken and there was also a couple of broken windows.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Rush Center-The tornado moved in from Pawnee county at 3:30 PM CDT and did damage to trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2011FloodRush Center-Water was covering 50 feet of U.S. Highway 183 south of Rush Center.
May 2011Heavy RainRush Center-Rainfall of 2.40 was observed, most falling during the evening hours.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Rush Center-Another storm south of the Timken tornado produced this tornado but it did not strike anything to damage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Eight inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
June 2010Heavy RainRush Center-Rainfall of 1.95 was recorded in 1 hour.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Two to three inch diameter tree branches broken. Also had 2.00" of rain.
June 2006HailRush Center-Also had 2.40" of rain.
March 2005HailRush Center-One inch diameter hail covered the ground to a depth of 4 inches. One vehicle slid off into the ditch.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Rush Center-This weak tornado did not do any damage (nothing to hit)
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Five to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Rush Center-Stayed away from objects/things
April 2001Tornado (F0)Rush Center-Weak tornado
June 2001Flash FloodRush Center-Water over K96 to a depth of 10 inches.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindRush Center-Eight inch diameter tree split.
June 1997Flash FloodRush Center-Roads washed out.
May 2023HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2023HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2023HailRush Center-no account filed
April 2019HailRush Center-no account filed
April 2019HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2018HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2014HailRush Center-no account filed
October 2013HailRush Center-no account filed
August 2013HailRush Center-no account filed
August 2013HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2011HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2011HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2010HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2008HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2007HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2007HailRush Center-no account filed
May 2007HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2006HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2006HailRush Center-no account filed
July 2006HailRush Center-no account filed
July 2006HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2005HailRush Center-no account filed
June 2005HailRush Center-no account filed
March 2004HailRush Center-no account filed
August 2004HailRush Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rush 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
La Crosse4.6 miles15
Nekoma7.0 miles15
Timken7.0 miles15
Bison7.2 miles14
Hargrave9.5 miles14
Schaffer11.7 miles15
Alexander12.9 miles15
Liebenthal13.1 miles14

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 Rush CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673385The 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 475611. 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.