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Schoenchen, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67667. It lies near Lookout Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Liebenthal quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,926 feet above sea level.

Schoenchen within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Schoenchen fell from 207 to 170 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
2010207
2020170-37 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Schoenchen between 2015 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
3 September 2018Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service245
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresEllis County017-214
16 May 2017Natural1.0 acresEllis County017-133
1 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service99
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0047
19 February 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service4
26 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service016-249

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Schoenchen: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Beiker Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Larry Werth Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Werth Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schoenchen in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 33 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Schoenchen2 hurt, $50,000There was damage to a metal building and a quonset hut. Two young boys were injured when the door blew off of the building. A chicken house blew away.
May 1998HailSchoenchen$300,000Much of the wheat and corn were mowed down.
September 1994HailSchoenchen$50,000no account filed
April 1998Flash FloodSchoenchen$5,000A quick rise on the Smoky Hill River submerged a front end loader.
July 2018Heavy RainSchoenchen-Rainfall was measured at 1.01 in one hour.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-Damage to trees, fences and some outbuildings.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-Winds were estimated to be gusting to 60 MPH.
May 2011HailSchoenchen-A few golfball sized hail stones were reported along highway 183 near the Rush/Ellis county line.
August 2008Heavy RainSchoenchen-Rainfall of 2.50 was measured.
August 2008Heavy RainSchoenchen-Rainfall of 1.90 was measured.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-There was also a funnel cloud reported in the area.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2005HailSchoenchen-The hail covered the ground.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-Eight inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-Several six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Schoenchen-This was another very brief spin-up that did not hit any structure
May 2021HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2021HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2021HailSchoenchen-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2018HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2017HailSchoenchen-no account filed
June 2017HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2016HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2013HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2012HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2012HailSchoenchen-no account filed
July 2012HailSchoenchen-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-no account filed
June 2011HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2007HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2007HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2007HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 2007HailSchoenchen-no account filed
August 2006Funnel CloudSchoenchen-no account filed
August 2005HailSchoenchen-no account filed
August 2005HailSchoenchen-no account filed
September 2003HailSchoenchen-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-no account filed
June 2002HailSchoenchen-no account filed
August 2001HailSchoenchen-no account filed
April 1998HailSchoenchen-no account filed
April 1998HailSchoenchen-no account filed
August 1998HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 1998HailSchoenchen-no account filed
May 1998HailSchoenchen-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchoenchen-no account filed
July 1996HailSchoenchen-no account filed
July 1994HailSchoenchen-no account filed
September 1994HailSchoenchen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Antonino5.8 miles14
Munjor7.6 miles16
Pfeifer8.8 miles14
Toulon10.7 miles14
Hays11.4 miles16
Victoria13.7 miles14
Yocemento14.2 miles15
Catharine16.0 miles15

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 SchoenchenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2839751The 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 475386. 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.

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.