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Sharon, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67138. It stands on East Branch Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sharon South quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Sharon within Barber County

Population over time

2 figures

Sharon fell from 158 to 147 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
2010158
2020147-11 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

Storms near this place

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 53 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 46 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSharon$20,000Barn damaged.
May 1999LightningSharon$20,000House struck.
March 2026HailSharon-A social media photo of 1.75 inch hail.
March 2026HailSharon-Social media report of 1.5 inch hail.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Sharon-This was a brief and weak tornado.
February 2012HailSharon-Pea to penny sized hail covered the ground.
June 2008HailSharon-The hail broke out the windows on the north side a house.
September 2008FloodSharon-Flooding was reported over Tri-City Road north of Highway 160.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindSharon-Large trees blown down and shingles were blown off a few roofs
July 2003HailSharon-This giant hail fell on the county line. Damage was not reported but certainly must of occurred.
September 1999HailSharon-Hail covered the ground.
July 1999Flash FloodSharon-Water over highway 160.
June 1998HailSharon-Hail completely covered the ground.
May 2017HailSharon-no account filed
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed
April 2013HailSharon-no account filed
May 2010HailSharon-no account filed
May 2010HailSharon-no account filed
May 2009HailSharon-no account filed
May 2009HailSharon-no account filed
June 2008HailSharon-no account filed
June 2007HailSharon-no account filed
June 2007HailSharon-no account filed
October 2007HailSharon-no account filed
April 2005HailSharon-no account filed
September 2005HailSharon-no account filed
July 2003HailSharon-no account filed
July 2003HailSharon-no account filed
July 2003HailSharon-no account filed
July 2003HailSharon-no account filed
July 2003HailSharon-no account filed
September 2002HailSharon-no account filed
June 2001HailSharon-no account filed
June 2001HailSharon-no account filed
June 2001HailSharon-no account filed
June 2001HailSharon-no account filed
October 2001HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSharon-no account filed
April 1999HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999HailSharon-no account filed
May 1999HailSharon-no account filed
June 1998HailSharon-no account filed
June 1998HailSharon-no account filed
June 1998HailSharon-no account filed
July 1998HailSharon-no account filed
June 1997HailSharon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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
Pixley4.9 miles14
Medicine Lodge8.8 miles14
Gerlane9.5 miles14
Hazelton11.0 miles15
Mingona15.2 miles14
Kiowa16.3 miles15
Isabel16.5 miles14
Forest City17.2 miles14

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 SharonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967492The 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 470492. 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.

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.