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Scranton, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Scranton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66537. The Survey maps it on the Carbondale quadrangle. 653 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Scranton within Osage County

On record in Scranton

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

Scranton fell from 710 to 653 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
2010710
2020653-57 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

57 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Scranton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. 1 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2017Naturalunder an acreOsage County249
4 August 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service191
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800242
22 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service177
5 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service117
18 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service128
8 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service109
6 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKansas Forest Service1800105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scranton in 72 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 40 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 flood. 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 2005Flash FloodScranton$100,000Rainfall of around 4 inches brought at least 6 inches of fast flowing water across rural roads just north of Scranton. Roads were barricaded.
June 2005Flash FloodScranton$60,000165th street closed to wanamaker along west city limits due to fast flowing water over highway.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindScranton$2,000Strong winds blew down power lines near Scranton.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindScranton-A personal weather station.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindScranton-Power lines down on Highway 56.
April 2023HailScranton-Nickel sized hail and 50 mph wind gusts reported.
March 2022Flash FloodScranton-Water over roadway at 56 highway and S. Topeka Avenue. Road closed at this location.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindScranton-Delayed report of numerous tree limbs down, biggest around 2 to 3 feet in diameter.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindScranton-Report of tree blown down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindScranton-Several reports of trees down around Carbondale, Overbrook, and Burlingame area. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindScranton-Estimated wind gusts of 60-65 mph.
May 2017HailScranton-Hail lasted for three minutes.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindScranton-Dead tree limbs down and power outages in town.
May 2015FloodScranton-Minor flooding was reported in Scranton.
May 2015FloodScranton-Several streets in Carbondale and across the county are flooded.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindScranton-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindScranton-Wind gusts estimated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindScranton-Trees up to 3 ft in diameter and several power lines down.
June 2014Flash FloodScranton-Some streets barricaded due to running water.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindScranton-Pea size hail also reported.
June 2013Flash FloodScranton-Several reports of street flooding in Scranton.
March 2012Funnel CloudScranton-Numerous chasers reported a brief cone funnel 2 miles south of Carbondale near the Highway 75 and 56 junction.
March 2012HailScranton-This was a delayed report, discovered on social media.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindScranton-Trained spotter estimated winds of 70 mph.
September 2010FloodScranton-Flooding caused the closure of 101st Street between Wanamaker and Burlingame Road.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindScranton-Spotter reported debris and power flashes on the south side of Scranton. The town of Scranton was also left without power.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindScranton-Business Sign blown over.
April 2001HailScranton-Softball size hail fell near Scranton.
September 2001Flash FloodScranton-Runoff from heavy rain caused U.S. Highway 56 to be closed for a time near Scranton.
May 2018HailScranton-no account filed
May 2018HailScranton-no account filed
May 2018HailScranton-no account filed
May 2018HailScranton-no account filed
May 2017HailScranton-no account filed
May 2013HailScranton-no account filed
June 2013HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
March 2012HailScranton-no account filed
August 2010HailScranton-no account filed
March 2009HailScranton-no account filed
March 2009HailScranton-no account filed
May 2009HailScranton-no account filed
June 2008HailScranton-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindScranton-no account filed
June 2005HailScranton-no account filed
June 2005HailScranton-no account filed
May 2004HailScranton-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindScranton-no account filed
April 2003HailScranton-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindScranton-no account filed
May 2002HailScranton-no account filed
May 2002HailScranton-no account filed
May 2002HailScranton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Four Corners2.8 miles16
Carbondale3.7 miles16
Mineral Springs4.9 miles16
Burlingame5.5 miles16
Peterton8.5 miles14
Swissvale9.1 miles15
Overbrook9.6 miles15
Lyndon Station10.1 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 ScrantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q51973The 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 479457. 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.