Saint Francis, Kansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wano Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67756. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Francis quadrangle. 1,263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,320 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Francis
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Cheyenne County Courthouselisted 2002 · 0.2 miles away
St. Francis City Parklisted 2008 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Francis fell from 1,329 to 1,263 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 | 1,329 | |
| 2020 | 1,263 | -66 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1942 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS St Francis quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS St Francis quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Saint Francis between 2007 and 2020, burning about 9,024 acres in total. 2 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 | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2015 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 821151 |
| 21 August 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 821152 |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cheyenne County | 74171 |
| 1 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Cheyenne County | 3617 |
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cheyenne County | 36171 |
| 5 March 2017 | Fireworks | 400 acres | Cheyenne County | 3517 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Francis: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Francis Sand & Ready Mix | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 Saint Francis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964042 | 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 470970. 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.








