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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.

Saint Francis within Cheyenne County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,329
20201,263-66 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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 2007

Regional 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/undetermined5
Fireworks3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 August 2015Natural5.0 acresKansas Forest Service821151
21 August 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service821152
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreCheyenne County74171
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresCheyenne County3617
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCheyenne County36171
5 March 2017Fireworks400 acresCheyenne County3517

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheyenne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
St Francis Sand & Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cheyenne 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
Wheeler4.6 miles9
Bird City14.2 miles9

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 FrancisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964042The 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.