BlockBefore

Savonburg, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elsmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66772. The Survey maps it on the Stark quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Savonburg within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Savonburg fell from 109 to 74 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
2010109
202074-35 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Savonburg between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,709 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
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
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018010
28 April 2018Debris and open burning120 acresKansas Forest Service2018024
31 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service2015018
30 March 2018Debris and open burning12 acresKansas Forest Service2018009
21 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAllen County2017009
12 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Service2018005
12 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
6 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savonburg in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 6 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 1993HailSavonburg$5,000no account filed
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Savonburg-Brief tornado touchdown occurred in open country.
June 2019HailSavonburg-no account filed
June 2019HailSavonburg-no account filed
May 2008HailSavonburg-no account filed
March 2006HailSavonburg-no account filed
April 1998HailSavonburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Elsmore3.1 miles17
Leanna10.0 miles19
Moran11.6 miles17
La Harpe14.2 miles18
Humboldt16.1 miles18
Gas16.1 miles18
Bayard16.9 miles17
Petrolia17.4 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 SavonburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073671The 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 474732. 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.