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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.

Saint George within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
2010639
20201,054+415 (+65%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

81 since 2002

Regional 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Smoking7
Fireworks6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service18505
22 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acrePottawatomie County84
8 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176025
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePottawatomie County107
4 July 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176021
3 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176019
2 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176009
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1176012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mc Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Swamp Angel3.3 miles18
Wamego6.2 miles17
Louisville6.9 miles16
Flush7.2 miles16
Belvue13.0 miles17
Westmoreland14.0 miles17
Laclede15.1 miles16
Fostoria17.8 miles20

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 GeorgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2250956The 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.