Saint George, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in St. George Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66535. It stands on Blackjack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle. 1,054 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint George grew from 639 to 1,054 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 | 639 | |
| 2020 | 1,054 | +415 (+65%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS St George quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. George quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
81 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Saint George between 2002 and 2020, burning about 3,446 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18505 |
| 22 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 84 |
| 8 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176025 |
| 7 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 107 |
| 4 July 2018 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176021 |
| 3 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176019 |
| 2 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176009 |
| 2 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176012 |
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 George: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Carter Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swamp Angel | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Wamego | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Louisville | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Flush | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Belvue | 13.0 miles | 17 | |
| Westmoreland | 14.0 miles | 17 | |
| Laclede | 15.1 miles | 16 | |
| Fostoria | 17.8 miles | 20 |
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 George | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2250956 | 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 476409. 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.








