Sharon Springs, Kansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sharon Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67758. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Springs West quadrangle. 751 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,474 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSharon Springs grew from 748 to 751 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 748 | |
| 2020 | 751 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Weskan quadrangle1:62500
- 1979 USGS Sharon Springs West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sharon Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sharon Springs between 2006 and 2015, burning about 1,108 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,107 acres | Wallace County | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon Springs in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 6 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Sharon Springs | $5,000,000 | Golfball-size hail damaged roofs and cars resulting in $1.2 milllion loss. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon Springs | $500 | Thunderstorm winds broke seven to eight inch diameter branches. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon Springs | - | Three to four inch diameter branches broken in several areas of Sharon Springs. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Sharon Springs | - | Hail caused about $675,000 damage to wheat crop. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Sharon Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds broke seven to eight inch diameter branches. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Sharon Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Sharon Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Sharon Springs | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Sharon Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2437698 | The 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 471157. 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.




