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Scandia, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scandia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66966. The Survey maps it on the Scandia quadrangle. 344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Scandia within Republic County

Population over time

2 figures

Scandia fell from 372 to 344 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
2010372
2020344-28 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Scandia in 2015, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2

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
13 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500014
10 March 2015Debris and open burning8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Republic County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scandia in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
October 1998LightningScandia$25,000According to the Scandia Journal the farmhouse owned by Landy Hay was severely burned when lightning struck a nearby fence charger igniting a fire that burned the house.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindScandia$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged power lines near Scandia.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindScandia$2,000Winds knocked down power lines and did damage of a minor nature to several buildings.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindScandia-Measured by Kansas Mesonet station at Belleville 2W.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindScandia-Restaurant owner had a door blown off the hinges.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindScandia-Power lines and trees down which are blocking emergency services from entering the town.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindScandia-A severe thunderstorm ripped off a section of a roof from a hay barn, and did damage to a center pivot.
August 2006Heavy RainScandia-Heavy rain led to urban and small stream flooding. An observer reported 1.7 inches of rain during the 3 hour period. Street flooding was reported in the city of Scandia.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Scandia-A tornado touched down over open country near Scandia and traveled 1 mile before dissipating.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Scandia-A tornado touched down over open country north of Scandia and traveled 1 mile before dissipating.
June 2017HailScandia-no account filed
June 2008HailScandia-no account filed
April 2004HailScandia-no account filed
May 2004HailScandia-no account filed
August 2004HailScandia-no account filed
June 2003HailScandia-no account filed
June 2003HailScandia-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindScandia-no account filed
June 2001HailScandia-no account filed
July 2001HailScandia-no account filed
September 2001HailScandia-no account filed
September 2001HailScandia-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindScandia-no account filed
May 1996HailScandia-no account filed
July 1996HailScandia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Republic 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
Rydal4.0 miles13
Sherdahl4.5 miles13
Courtland5.9 miles13
Norway6.8 miles13
Kackley7.5 miles13
Belleville8.3 miles13
Republic9.1 miles13
White Rock10.1 miles13

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 ScandiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673365The 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 472830. 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.