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.
Population over time
2 figuresScandia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 372 | |
| 2020 | 344 | -28 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1892 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Scandia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500014 |
| 10 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1998 | Lightning | Scandia | $25,000 | According 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged power lines near Scandia. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | $2,000 | Winds knocked down power lines and did damage of a minor nature to several buildings. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | Measured by Kansas Mesonet station at Belleville 2W. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | Restaurant owner had a door blown off the hinges. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | Power lines and trees down which are blocking emergency services from entering the town. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | A severe thunderstorm ripped off a section of a roof from a hay barn, and did damage to a center pivot. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Scandia | - | 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 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Scandia | - | A tornado touched down over open country near Scandia and traveled 1 mile before dissipating. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Scandia | - | A tornado touched down over open country north of Scandia and traveled 1 mile before dissipating. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Scandia | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rydal | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Sherdahl | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Courtland | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Norway | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kackley | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Belleville | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Republic | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| White Rock | 10.1 miles | 13 |
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 Scandia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673365 | 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 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.





