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Scott City, Kansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67871. The Survey maps it on the Scott City quadrangle. 4,113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,979 feet above sea level.

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Scott City within Scott County

On record in Scott City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Scott City grew from 3,816 to 4,113 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
20103,816
20204,113+297 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Scott City in 2017, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreScott County14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

60 of 282 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scott City in 282 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 188 hail, 68 thunderstorm wind, 13 heavy rain, 8 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindScott City$1,550,000Swath of large hail and high wind across the county produced $1.55 million in damage to property. Extensive damage was also done to crops. In Scott City, a roof was blown off; a camper was blown 30 feet and a shed was blown down.
May 1996HailScott City$650,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindScott City$350,000Four house with severe roof damage; many windows blown out; many vehicles with windows blown out due to flying debris; 10- by 32-foot building demolished; other smaller ones heavily damaged; mobile home overturned; and two campers damaged.
May 1993Tornado (F1)Scott City$50,000A tornado touched down briefly south of Scott City. A mobile home was pushed 200 yards off its foundation. Two sheriff's patrol cars were blown off the road.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindScott City$30,000Tree was uprooted and then fell onto a house.
July 1996HailScott City$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailScott City$5,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindScott City$4,000Power poles blown down. Cars into the ditch
July 1996Thunderstorm WindScott City$600no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindScott City-A measured wind gust of 58 mph at the Ellis Feeders observing station.
April 2025HailScott City-An emergency manager reported 1 inch hail.
April 2025HailScott City-A NWS employee reported hail just over 2 inches in size.
April 2025HailScott City-A mPING report of golf ball sized hail.
August 2025HailScott City-A COOP Observer reported hail of 1.75 inches.
August 2025HailScott City-The emergency manager reported hail of 1.75 inches. At the same time, a report of 1 hail was given from the public.
May 2024Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall total of 2.15 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall report of 1.75 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall report of 2.47 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall report of 2.16 inches.
July 2024HailScott City-Hail was measured at 1.5 inches diameter.
July 2024HailScott City-Reported by Emergency Management.
July 2024HailScott City-Report of flooding over the roads in the town of Scott City.
July 2020Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 3.30 inches was observed.
July 2020Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 2.40 inches was observed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindScott City-A large tree was blown over on the golf course.
June 2018Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 3.72 inches was observed but it was also still raining.
June 2018Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 5 to 5 1/2 inches was common across the city.
June 2018Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 7.79 inches was measured.
June 2018Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 7.35 inches was measured.
August 2017Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall was 3.58 inches.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindScott City-The wind occurred just ahead of the thunderstorm.
July 2013HailScott City-There was also 50 to 60 MPH winds with the hail.
June 2011HailScott City-There was a mix of quarter to golf ball sized hail.
July 2010FloodScott City-Ditches were full and there was ponding of water on many county roads. Water was over highway 96 and many low water crossings were flooded in the area.
July 2010Heavy RainScott City-Three inches of rainfall was observed.
July 2010Heavy RainScott City-Rainfall of 2.40 inches was observed.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindScott City-The winds were estimated.
May 2010HailScott City-The hail was very brief.
May 2009HailScott City-There were also 50 mph winds associated with the hail.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindScott City-Tree limbs 4 inches in diameter were blown down and a window was broken out. One temporary road sign was blown across highway 83 just south of town.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Scott City-This was a brief tornado that made contact for about 30 seconds.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindScott City-A six inch diameter tree was blown down.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindScott City-The wind was measured at the KSNW weatherlab site.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindScott City-Th wind gust was recorded at the KSN Weatherlab at the Scott City Middle School.
February 2007FloodScott City-Snow melt produced widespread flooding across the county. Many roads were covered with water and many county roads were destroyed by the flooding.
June 2007FloodScott City-Roads and streets in and around Scott City were flooded.
March 2007FloodScott City-A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused extensive flooding in the county. A radio tower with 4 feet of standing water. Water in the building, so sandbagging was done to bring in a generator to run the tower. A few farm houses in the southern part of the county were abandoned due to water in the houses. Many fields in southern part of county with standing water.
May 2006HailScott City-The hail nearly covered the ground and was falling for 15 minutes.
May 2006FloodScott City-Minor flooding was reported.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Power lines blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Many five to six inch diameter tree branches were broken.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-A 40000 bushel grain bin was destroyed at KC Feeders.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Two pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned by the high wind. A barn also collapsed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindScott City-Several power poles were blown down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindScott City-Four to six inch diameter tree branches were broken. A few shingles were blown off roofs.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Scott City-This was a multiple vortex tornado that did not strike anything.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindScott City-KSN weaether lab site at the middle school
May 2004Tornado (F0)Scott City-This tornado briefly had circulation on the ground but was a funnel for about five minutes. There was no damage.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Hutchins3.0 miles10
Shallow Water7.5 miles10
Modoc9.3 miles10
Grigston10.1 miles8
Manning11.0 miles8
Chevron11.7 miles10
Pence14.8 miles12

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 Scott CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233453The 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 471507. 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.