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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.

Sharon Springs within Wallace County

Population over time

2 figures

Sharon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010748
2020751+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2006

Regional 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 use1
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
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,107 acresWallace Countynot named
14 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallace County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailSharon Springs$5,000,000Golfball-size hail damaged roofs and cars resulting in $1.2 milllion loss.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSharon Springs$500Thunderstorm winds broke seven to eight inch diameter branches.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSharon Springs-Three to four inch diameter branches broken in several areas of Sharon Springs.
May 1994HailSharon Springs-Hail caused about $675,000 damage to wheat crop.
June 1994HailSharon Springs-Thunderstorm winds broke seven to eight inch diameter branches.
July 1995HailSharon Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailSharon Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailSharon Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallace 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
Sunland3.7 miles9
Wallace8.6 miles9
Weskan11.5 miles9

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2437698The 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.