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Scottsville, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lulu Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67420. The Survey maps it on the Scottsville quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

Scottsville within Mitchell County

Population over time

2 figures

Scottsville grew from 25 to 26 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
201025
202026+1 (+4%)

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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Scottsville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 41 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service108
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service6
4 October 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsville in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 hail, 5 heavy rain, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2004HailScottsville$50,000no account filed
August 1993HailScottsville$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailScottsville$25,000Accompanied by winds estimated at 60 TO 70 mph.
June 2008HailScottsville$25,000no account filed
May 2007HailScottsville$10,000no account filed
June 2004HailScottsville$10,000no account filed
June 2020Heavy RainScottsville-A 24-hour rainfall amount of 4.56 inches was reported.
August 2014Heavy RainScottsville-Storm-total rainfall of 3.02, the majority of which fell between 4-6 pm CDT.
August 2014Heavy RainScottsville-The 24-hour rainfall amount was 5 inches.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindScottsville-CoCoRaHS observer reported measured 73 MPH gust along with pea to dime size hail.
April 2013HailScottsville-Nickel size hail covered the roadways near the intersection of roads 340 and D.
June 2012Heavy RainScottsville-Rainfall of 3.15 inches over the past 24 hours. The rain began during the evening on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
May 2011Heavy RainScottsville-Storm total rainfall of 3.10 inches was reported by a CoCoRaHs observer.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Scottsville-A tornado was witnessed by a storm spotter south of Scottsville in Mitchell county.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Scottsville-Tornado entered Mitchell County from Jewell County
May 2025HailScottsville-no account filed
August 2014HailScottsville-no account filed
May 2010HailScottsville-no account filed
June 2009HailScottsville-no account filed
May 2007HailScottsville-no account filed
October 2000HailScottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Gilbert6.3 miles13
Asherville9.6 miles15
Beloit10.1 miles13
Simpson11.0 miles15
Solomon Rapids13.6 miles12
Coursens Grove (historical)18.4 miles15
Glen Elder19.1 miles14
Cawker City25.6 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 ScottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1833966The 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 484934. 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.